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  • Patrick Quinn

    Cloud Optimized Formats: NetCDF-as-Zarr Optimizations and Next Steps

    At Element 84 we help groups rethink how they approach technology and are particularly focused on supporting migration to the cloud. As we moved from local hard drives to the cloud, there are things we took for granted when it came to file formats. On your own hard drive reads are cheap and latency is…

  • Jeff Siarto

    Sentinel-2 Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFFs Now Available on AWS Registry of Open Data

    This week, in collaboration with Geoscience Australia, we released our Sentinel-2 Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFF (COG) dataset on AWS Open Data. Our collection contains all 11.4 million scenes from the Sentinel-2 Public Dataset, except the JPEG2000 (JP2K) files are all converted to COGs. Our dataset is continuously updated to mirror the growth of the public Sentinel-2 data…

  • Jeff Siarto

    AWS Public Safety and Disaster Response Competency

    Hanging just above the reception desk at our office in Alexandria are three framed posters–one for each of our company values. Now you may think that’s a bit cheesy–in a sort of team-rowing-motivational poster kind of way–but they truly drive our work, decision making and business outlook at Element 84. For me, our most important…

  • Kevin Shaw

    IAM What IAM And That’s All That IAM

    Testing Your IAM Policies As the complexity of your AWS environment grows, the need for more specific Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles, and policies increases. These IAM policies govern not only the users that are logging in to the AWS environment, but also the permissions that are granted to services, Lambda functions, EC2 instances, and…

  • Matt Bialas

    Serverless Devise with Jets

    Over the past few years, serverless design has taken the cloud community by storm. It is hard to ignore–with promises like “pay only for what you use”, “no security patching”, and “infinite scalability”. Being on the cutting edge can have drawbacks too, which in this case is what I would describe as an absence of…

  • Kevin Shaw

    Rising From The Ashes, Untangling the Mysteries of DevOps

    There are many books that have influenced me as a software engineer.  From the computer science textbooks I used in college, to the animal covered books from O’Reilly I used to pick up new languages and tools, to the Clean Code books from Uncle Bob Martin that helped shape the way I approach software development. However,…

  • Colby Fayock

    E84 @ 2019 ESIP Summer Meeting

    We’re passionate about Earth Science Data and helping to solve the challenges in that field. At this year’s ESIP Summer Meeting, we have five E84 team members speaking and moderating across six different sessions, with an additional four of us out there to chat and support the event. Here’s where you can find us if…

  • Gary Sieling

    Cloud-native Apps Force Developers to Put Security First

    Data stored in the cloud is an attractive target for hackers. High profile breaches like the recent exposure of images of license plates at a U.S. port of entry have become commonplace. These events justifiably alarm consumers. Every incident cements distrust toward the tech industry, causing technology users to demand better security from software creators.…

  • Colby Fayock

    E84 @ AWS Public Sector Summit in Washington DC

    We’ve been heads down, hard at work tackling challenges in Earth Science and Disaster Response and are ready to share what we’re doing with all of you. June 11-12, we’ll be joining AWS at their Public Sector Summit in Washington, DC to talk about some of these challenges and how we’re working to solve them.…

  • Kevin Shaw

    Exploring Serverless Portability

    With Functions as a Service (FaaS), cloud providers promise us the ability to deploy, run, and scale small pieces of application code without worrying about the underlying hardware or virtual machines. This comes with certain advantages, such as a pricing model that only charges for the amount of time the code is running, quick deployments,…