Amazon Australia / Nearmap, page-3

1 March 2018

News, Insights and Stories from the Australian and New Zealand tech ecosystem

Many of the organisations that are now enterprise level customers of Amazon Web Services (AWS) were startups or just entering the scaleup phase of their company five years ago. Companies like Nearmap that were in their fifth year at the time AWS landed in Australia were able to scale significantly by leveraging its services.

To paint the picture clearly, in 2013 Nearmap was a startup from Perth that had just graduated out of the founder’s living room and moved its operation to Sydney. The company, which sends aeroplanes into the air to take photographs and produce maps available for access by their customers, kind of like Google Earth on steroids, had disks upon disks of data and its office was filled wall to wall with cabinets of racks before switching to the cloud with AWS.

Today the organisation regularly captures 80 percent of the Australian population, 69 percent of New Zealand, and 72 percent of the United States. Its technologies are used for everything from infrastructure and planning to assessing the extent of damages after natural disasters such as earthquakes.



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