live from Las Vegas it's the cube covering AWS reinvents 2018 brought to you by Amazon Web Services Intel and their ecosystem partners okay welcome back everyone live here at Amazon Web Services reinvent 2018 floor to cubes here wall-to-wall coverage - second day of three days I'm John for a table on that Dave six years and we got Maria d'marie here vice president general manager Lockheed Martin space news yesterday was the announcement of a new satellite ground station you guys are partnering with AWS this is an outside-the-box pioneering like move for amazon covered it yesterday on our blog we were giving commentary this is gonna power the iot edge and so essentially it kills the notion of an edge because if there's connectivity everywhere there is no edge the world is round and it's good space that's exactly right that's what you're doing is truly disruptive my team in lockheed martin we provide ground for satellite systems and it's generally usually a physical place that exists where you know where it is there's a large parabolic antenna this completely disrupts that whole concept it becomes a network node of antennas low-cost antennas for our customers and it's truly disruptive exactly to your point let's talk about how it works you have this thing called verge right what you're doing for the cube stats you did for orbit not related to our cube different cube different cubes overages part talk about how it works at amazon explain the system what was what's gonna how it's gonna work okay wasn't sure so amazon with we together had this collaboration which we rolled out yesterday andrew jesse from amazon AWS rolled out AWS brown station which is 12 parabolic antennas it'll be at amazon locations at there they're global regions thank you and so that allows for download of downlink of satellite data to those our system is complementary to that and separate in its low cost antennas across other areas which allows for more frequent connectivity for the satellites more frequent opportunities to downlink data and all of this is available to customers as a service so you were only paying for it when you're using it yeah it's really key when you think about the cost of entry to have access to space it's very expensive if you have to build these large parabolics this allows startups it makes provisioning a jada Center look like a picnic satellites how did it come about where'd the idea come from how would that collaboration start I'm glad you asked so we had Andrew Jesse and our executive vice president Rick Ambrose you know know each other and they had a conversation one day and they said we should do something together and we actually Teresa Carlson and I work for both of them got together got our teams together out in Denver Colorado for a two-day shark tank type activity and we just brought some of our best and brightest from both teams across all of Amazon not even just AWS but other activities and Amazon young people that just graduated from college some of our senior fellows everybody and we just put them in a room and said what are some things that what do we have that we're working on that we might be able to bring three big things the reinvent exactly I like to think it's like we call it peanut butter and chocolate because they're great separately but when you bring them together they're even better and these systems are really complementary to each other and it's just it's been really neat and the teams have had a lot of fun learning from each other it's certainly chink his connectivity to places that don't have connectivity so edge computing had a limitation between power and connectivity power you get battery low cut low you know low battery power batteries they last a long time too now satellite coverage so there's no excuse to trip the first back all the data so backhaul is huge here great huge advantage right so factory in remote areas as you guys did the announcement yesterday were there developers involved how do you see developers playing with this so let's just say I'm into space and I want to visit some satellites what do I do it so I go to the console and say you know move the satellite like a video game and like start mostly what you do is make sure that you can down link whatever type of data you work with can get to you the point of both these systems it gets data into the cloud and that's where the real magic happens because when you can get that downlink down and start using artificial intelligence machine learning the services that are available on that data now you can take action which is really what our customers missions are about it's not necessarily about the satellites or down-looking data from satellites it's about getting data that you can add and turning into the insights family so talk about space history that you guys have had and big legacy with Lockheed Martin I was seeing you know Theresa Carlson and I love to talk about space force that was announced and just the notion of having a space force it's kind of people love you know seeing you know Blue Origin and SpaceX Rockets landing back on the pads so huge interest in the culture back to space there is I have two kids I'm sorry three kids at home too that are actually interested in space I should say but yeah my kids talk about it you know we just had the Mars Lander the insight Lander Monday and we were at dinner Monday night and my kids are like mom that you know yeah we landed something on Mars like that was us yeah so it's it's really an exciting time do we have hardest space a lot of it's because so much technology has advanced recently to the point where we can do a lot more things than we've been able to do and the cost keep coming down coming down so you know NIT I we can easily envision the the heavy lifting and the before and the after can you describe what a customer's going to go through now and how it's different yes if you were gonna build a parabolic antenna it might cost a million dollars you have to have land you might need to have a fence line you have to maintain it operate it this is available as a service so you could imagine if this exists for our customers that might want to you know maybe there's a fire situation and someone needs rapid access to get imagery down to see where something's happen as a service they can connect we can get them on quickly and have their owns all kinds of other moving vehicles mobility kind of feature well I mean mostly right now we're dealing with satellites but that's a good idea that will take back I was like drone deliveries by John to your next meeting talking about video car the whole thing okay so where's this go next how do you envision it evolving after the parts of the Amazon solid connected to the cloud analytics are in the cloud a lot of horsepower absolutely you know we just went to Mars there's a lot of things they're going to be happening in deep space there's a lot of excitement about what's going on and Mars in the moon etc so I will tell you there were more ideas that came out of the shark tank I think that you know this is the start I think of a really great longer-term relationship I hope and that you know we do have some other ideas that we can't really necessarily everyone knows Jeff Bezos loves space yes joke we always say is maybe they put the data centers in space in Mars be a lot cooler Maria thanks for coming on explaining the relationship as Amazon announcement love it I think it's a super groundbreaking pioneering different but it shows where it's going great it's powering a lot of things just the beginning day one actly congratulation thank you okay live cube coverage here day two wrapping up I'm John Faraday Volante thanks for watching we'll see you tomorrow [Music]