NewSpaceVision #19: Space Will Become a Pillar in Everybody's Lives (feat. Guido Baraglia, Head of EMEA Aerospace at Amazon Web Services)
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Nov 17, 2022 Guido Baraglia, Head of Aerospace EMEA at Amazon Web Services, is a long-time aerospace and satellite industry leader. He discusses AWS’s customer-first approach to space, how cloud and ground station services accelerate startups, the rise of geospatial data in daily life, and the future of in-orbit processing, standardization and manufacturing.
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How Guido Landed At AWS By Forwarding A Job
- Guido joined AWS after a colleague posted a role on LinkedIn and a friend urged him to apply, illustrating serendipity in career moves.
- He reached out, applied, and two months later he was working at AWS aerospace.
Use Cloud To Cut Innovation Latency
- Embrace a customer-centric culture and use cloud to shorten innovation latency so teams can iterate faster and deliver value sooner.
- Guido stresses cloud helps legacy space firms reduce cost, scale globally, and access talent while enabling fast experimentation.
AWS Credits Power Fast Prototyping
- AWS uses accelerators and usage credits to let space startups 'fail fast' and validate ideas with low upfront cost.
- Credits cover compute and databases so teams can prototype, test, and pivot without heavy capital spend.