Focus on data analytics costs deepens as Amazon starts ground segment venture

摘要

Amazon (NASDAQrAMZN) is likely to spawn a focus on cost discipline, increased competition and speed in data analytics as the tech giant starts its satellite cloud-linked ground business.This is against the setting of soaring revenue growth in the cloud applications sector, according to recent data from research firm Gartner.Amazon plans to complete the "first" 12 ground stations globally, each with two antennas, before the end of 2019, Shayn Hawthorne, general manager of the AWS Ground Station unit, said in an interview. Looking ahead, the company plans to have 280 antennas within five to 10 years, though he did not say the number of teleports this would entail. It has already opened ground stations in Ohio and Oregon, having announced the ground business in November as part of a partnership with Lockheed Martin (NYSETMT).