Amazon allows customers to use satellites

[ILoveSats]

Just found this and wanted to share.

AWS Ground Station

AWS Ground Station is a fully managed service that lets you control satellite communications, downlink and process satellite data, and scale your satellite operations quickly, easily and cost-effectively without having to worry about building or managing your own ground station infrastructure

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[harshness]

The question is why would you choose satellite over an AWS Internet-based solution.