Wherobots, the Spatial Intelligence Cloud, is Now Available in AWS Europe

The EU is widely recognized as a world leader for climate solutions, automotive design and manufacturing, mobility systems and analysis, environmental monitoring, agriculture and precision farming, and urban development. Geospatial data is foundational to the success of these innovations. However most of the new technology is developed using tools and cloud services not optimized for geospatial development. Compared to internet data, support for geospatial data in the modern cloud environments has lagged. This technology gap has made working with geospatial data expensive, and required staffing data teams with unique expertise.

Introducing Wherobots for the AWS Europe (Ireland) Region

We are excited to announce that Wherobots is ready for EU native workloads. This expansion makes it possible for many EU companies to approve the use of Wherobots and adhere to their data residency requirements by processing and storing data in-region. 

Wherobots is the Spatial Intelligence Cloud

Wherobots’ mission is to make it easy for our customers to utilize geospatial data. We are delivering on it via a cloud optimized for developing and running solutions about the physical world, at any scale. Our purpose-built, cloud native approach is enabling teams at AddressCloud and Overture Maps Foundation to accelerate their pace of innovation with geospatial data. Their workloads run up to 20x faster after migrating from popular cloud-based engines, developer productivity is boosted with the most feature complete development experience for SQL and Python, and costs are reduced, putting new solutions in reach. 

A Cloud Native Lakehouse Architecture

The architecture of Wherobots is cloud native, and is deeply rooted in open source. Apache Sedona, the open source geospatial engine for Apache Spark, Apache Flink, and Snowflake, is 100% compatible with Wherobots. Users can easily lift and shift their Apache Sedona based applications into Wherobots with zero code changes. Wherobots is also one of the leading companies bringing GEO support into popular open file and open table formats like Parquet and Iceberg, and uses these formats by default. That way, you can deploy various engines on your data, benefit from the advantages of a Lakehouse engine such as ACID transactions and table versioning, without locking your data into proprietary vendor siloes, or inelastic solutions that couple storage with compute.  

Getting Started

Getting started is easy. To use Wherobots within the AWS Europe (Ireland) region, get srated with the Professional Edition on the AWS Marketplace. Create a notebook and explore one of many examples designed to help you realize what you can create using SQL and Python. There’s no infrastructure to manage. Teams just use and pay for Wherobots usage on-demand via Wherobots Spatial Units, which reflect the amount of serverless computation consumed.

If there are other clouds or regions that you’re interested in using beyond the ones we currently support, please reach out to us at product@wherobots.com or fill out this form here. You can read more about Wherobots on the website or by exploring our product documentation.