Re: [gdal-dev] GDAL VRT with Cloud Optimized GeoTIFFs and AWS

2019-03-04 Thread Even Rouault
On dimanche 3 mars 2019 01:58:08 CET Jeremy Palmer wrote: > I've now found this useful Mapserver wiki page > https://github.com/mapserver/mapserver/wiki/Render-images-straight-out-of-S3 > -with-the-vsicurl-driver. It seems to imply that it's better to merge a > collection of dataset tiles into a

Re: [gdal-dev] GDAL VRT with Cloud Optimized GeoTIFFs and AWS

2019-03-04 Thread Michael Smith
There are multiple advantages to using s3 over ebs. First is availability. S3 is highly available (and replicated). EBS is limited to the single volume and is much more fragile. EBS is also more expensive for storage than S3. And S3 is available to multiple instances, EBS is not, it can only be

Re: [gdal-dev] GDAL VRT with Cloud Optimized GeoTIFFs and AWS

2019-03-04 Thread Richard Greenwood
What are the advantages of storing the imagery in S3 as opposed to EBS? I'm using the throughput optimized magnetic EBS which I is a little less expensive than S3. I did some testing a couple years ago and didn't see enough performance gain to justify SSD. Have you tested S3 against any of the EBS