AWS Services - Spatial Data Management on AWS

AWS Services

Service Purpose

Amazon S3

Primary storage for spatial asset files with versioning and lifecycle management

Amazon DynamoDB

Metadata storage using on-demand billing and point-in-time recovery

Amazon OpenSearch Serverless

Full-text search and geospatial queries with serverless auto-scaling

Amazon API Gateway

RESTful API interface with Cognito and IAM authorization

AWS Lambda

Serverless compute for API handlers and event processing

Amazon Cognito

User authentication and identity management with user pools

Amazon Verified Permissions

Fine-grained access control using Cedar policy language

AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS)

Customer-managed encryption keys with automatic rotation

AWS Secrets Manager

Secure storage for sensitive configuration values and credentials

Amazon EventBridge

Event bus for workflow orchestration and asset change notifications

Amazon SQS

Asynchronous message processing with queues and dead letter queues

Amazon CloudFront

Content delivery for web portal with signed URLs for secure access

AWS Certificate Manager (ACM)

SSL/TLS certificate management for API Gateway and CloudFront

Amazon VPC

Network isolation with VPC endpoints for private AWS service access

AWS CloudFormation

Infrastructure deployment and management using nested stacks

AWS Deadline Cloud

Optional rendering and batch processing for content derivation

Amazon CloudWatch

Metrics, logs, and dashboards for operational visibility

AWS CloudTrail

API activity logging for security and compliance auditing

AWS X-Ray

Distributed tracing for performance analysis and debugging