PARIS, FRANCE: SES Space & Defense, a wholly-owned subsidiary of SES, today announced the availability of flexible, secure, and reliable satellite-powered network connectivity for AWS Modular Data Center, a cloud-based solution for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD).

AWS Modular Data Center makes it easy for the DoD to deploy modular data centers managed by Amazon Web Services (AWS) in infrastructure-limited locations. The solution was announced in February 2023 under the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) contract.

By leveraging SES’s multi-orbit, multi-band global fleet of satellites with AWS Modular Data Center, defense customers can access low-latency, cloud-based applications and services securely in Denied, Disrupted, Intermittent, and Limited (DDIL) environments through a dedicated network connection to AWS Regions. The customers will also be able to use SES’s second-generation medium earth orbit (MEO) constellation, O3b mPOWER, which delivers high-performance connectivity services ranging from tens of megabits to multiple gigabits per second.

Using SES’s Cloud Direct offering, SES Space & Defense can enable connectivity between field-deployed AWS Modular Data Center and AWS Regions, allowing one-hop connection between essential cloud services at the tactical edge and a broader set of cloud services in AWS Regions. Customers operating in DDIL environments can use SES’s satellite connectivity to support temporary or interim deployments of AWS Modular Data Center, or to provide network redundancy for mission-critical workloads.

David Fields, President and CEO of SES Space & Defense, said, “Our multi-orbit, multi-band satellite network delivers direct low-latency connectivity to AWS Regions, enabling mission success at the tactical edge. In a network-enabled battlefield, the ability to rapidly and securely extend cloud and edge computing into a tactical ecosystem in real time is critical to our warfighters in theatre.”

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