Mark Korver

Bio: Mark is the Geospatial Lead on the Solution Architecture team at Amazon Web Services (AWS) and is based in Seattle. He has over 8 years of experience building cloud architectures both as a customer and employee of AWS. With his many years running companies focused on geospatial, Mark is comfortable speaking to both business development and technical architecture. Before focusing on Geospatial at Amazon, Mark was the first Solution Architect on the State Local Government and Education team (SLED), part of the Worldwide Public Sector team. During the formative years of the SLED team, Mark served customers across the US, supporting projects at universities such as MIT, University of Washington, Berkeley and Stanford and worked with both State and local public safety customers. Prior to Amazon, Mark was CTO/Founder at SpatialCloud LLC, a geo-services startup running on AWS. Before that, Mark was a founder and spent 10 years building Alchemedia Inc. a software development firm based in Tokyo. At Alchemedia he helped create a business with core strengths in commercial mortgage loan management systems and delivered geo-enabled applications to customers including Kajima Corp., AutoDesk Japan, Minato City Government (Tokyo), NTT group, Lehman Brothers, Misawa Homes, Hitachi, Japan Space Imaging, Zenrin, Shimizu Corp, and the University of Tokyo. Mark holds a Master in City Planning from MIT with a specialization in Technology Transfer as it applies to international development projects and is proficient in Japanese.

'Clip & Ship' Turned Upside Down in the Cloud

One of the fundamental differences between Amazon S3 and on-prem file systems is that you can securely share data at web-scale without financial risk across systems. This makes using S3 to store data especially attractive for public sector and education customers who want to either make data more open, or peer with other institutions in a secure manner. / This talk/demonstration will illustrate best practice for open or shared data in the cloud. I will spend some time speaking to some of the lesser known features of S3, including the requester pays feature. Having covered the basics on S3, I will use a simple map tiling architecture using a combination of cloud services and open source tools to illustrate best practice.

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