Element 84 team has recently received the 2023 Geo and Global AWS Partner Award. This award recognizes leaders worldwide who have played a significant role in helping customers drive innovation and build solutions on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The announcement was made during a Partner Awards Gala at AWS re:Invent 2023. The Geo and Global AWS Partner Awards acknowledge a wide range of AWS Partners whose business models have embraced specialization, innovation, and cooperation. These awards recognize partners whose business models continue to evolve and thrive on AWS as they work with customers. Element 84 uses FilmDrop, a suite of open-source tools that ingests, archives, processes, analyzes, and distributes geospatial data in AWS, to tackle some of Earth’s biggest problems. By implementing custom FilmDrop deployments for each Aerospace and Satellite customer, clients are granted access to a bespoke processing pipeline that can deliver large-scale quantities of high-resolution satellite imagery.
“We are thrilled to be named AWS’s Aerospace and Satellite Partner of the Year for 2023! Geospatial and remote sensing data is vital to so many companies, agencies, and non-profits but it is large and complex to navigate,” said Dan Pilone, Element 84 Co-Founder and CEO. “The E84 team has had the privilege to bootstrap commercial satellite companies, shape open industry standards, operate at scale with NASA, NOAA, and USGS, and accelerate non-profit missions all on AWS infrastructure and operational capabilities.”
“We have assembled a team of the best and brightest in pursuit of that goal, and this is recognition of their fantastic work. We look forward to the future of Geospatial data as we move into a world where it continues to expand exponentially and we can employ tools of the future, especially AI, ML, and edge processing,” said Tracey Pilone, Element 84 Co-Founder and President.
Just like last year, the Geo and Global AWS Partner Awards had a self-nomination process for various award categories. The submissions were reviewed by a third-party, Canalys, with a special focus on customer success use cases. There were also data-driven award categories that included metrics to measure the performance of AWS Partners. Canalys audited the datasets to ensure that all measurements and calculations were objective and accurate.
The AWS Partner Network (APN) is a global program that helps companies build successful AWS-based businesses or solutions. The winners were selected by a panel of AWS experts based on strict criteria, and a third-party audit was conducted by Canalys to ensure fairness and accuracy.
