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Amazon Web Services Inc. has just added a new service, called Amazon Location Service, to its cloud offerings to help customers with location-based needs.
“Amazon Location Service is a new geospatial service that makes it easy for customers on AWS to integrate location information into their applications,” said Andre Dufour (pictured), General Manager, Amazon Location Service, AWS. “One of the things that’s really cool about Amazon Location is we enable customers to access this high-quality data in a way that’s incredibly cost effective. It’s up to 10 times cheaper than some of the alternatives.”
Dufour spoke with Rebecca Knight, host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, during AWS re:Invent. They discussed Amazon Location Services and uses cases the demonstrate how customers are leveraging this new service.