SES Space & Defense, a subsidiary of SES, has announced a new agreement to provide satellite-powered network connectivity to Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) Modular Data Center serving the US Department of Defense. The partnership will allow AWS to offer defense customers access to low-latency, cloud-based applications and services securely in Denied, Disrupted, Intermittent, and Limited (DDIL) environments through a dedicated network connection to AWS Regions. SES will also provide service from its second-generation medium earth orbit (MEO) constellation, O3b mPOWER, which is designed with an open architecture approach in space, ground, and user terminal allowing users to bring their own modems/waveform. The Modular Data Center was rolled out in February 2023 for the Pentagon under the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) contract. SES Space & Defense said in a statement that “Customers operating in DDIL environments can utilize SES’s satellite connectivity to support temporary AWS Modular Data Center deployments or as an interim connectivity solution for AWS Modular Data Center deployments, enabling customers to deploy workloads immediately upon the delivery of AWS Modular Data Center. Alternatively, if AWS Modular Data Center is utilizing terrestrial connectivity, customers can use SES’s satellite connectivity to provide network redundancy for mission-critical workloads.”
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