Key benefits of Amazon Location Service

This section provides an overview of the key benefits of Amazon Location Service. The main benefits are:

Access high-quality geospatial data

Amazon Location Service offers a comprehensive solution for integrating geospatial capabilities into applications, focusing on four key benefits: seamless AWS integration, data ownership and privacy, cost reduction, and rapid development. By leveraging AWS infrastructure and security measures, the service enables you to quickly implement location-based features while maintaining control over your data and reducing operational costs.

Integrate seamlessly

With Amazon Location Service, you quickly deploy and accelerate application development with seamless integrations with AWS services. Amazon Location seamlessly integrates with a suite of AWS services to streamline development workflows, accelerate deployment, and provide robust monitoring, security, and compliance. It works with AWS CloudFormation for consistent resource provisioning, Amazon CloudWatch for tracking metrics, AWS CloudTrail for logging account activity, and Amazon EventBridge for event-driven architectures utilizing AWS Lambda. Amazon Location also leverages AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) for secure access controls and resource tagging for efficient organization and management. This comprehensive integration enables faster development cycles, operational visibility, and adherence to security best practices.

For more information, see AWS integration for Amazon Location Service.

Own your data

With Amazon Location Service, you protect user privacy, shield your sensitive information, and reduce your application’s security risks. Amazon Location provides robust data control, rights, and secure access measures to ensure your organization's data remains private and secure. It anonymizes queries, encrypts sensitive location data at rest and in transit, and integrates with AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) so you can use your own encryption keys. You retain full rights to your data, with no third-party access for advertising or resale. Amazon Location also seamlessly integrates with AWS Identity and Access Management and Amazon Cognito for secure authentication and access controls, leveraging the proven security services at AWS to safeguard your data and applications.

For more information, see Security in Amazon Location Service.

Reduce operating costs

With Amazon Location Service, you access cost-effective, high-quality geospatial data from trusted data providers. Amazon Location requires no up-front commitment, and no minimum fee. You are only charged for what you use. Location data is billed based on each request your application makes to the service.

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Rapid development

Amazon Location Service enables developers to quickly integrate geospatial data and functionality into their applications. By providing fully managed APIs, Amazon Location eliminates the need to build and maintain complex location data infrastructure. The service also seamlessly integrates with AWS services like AWS CloudFormation, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and EventBridge, allowing developers to leverage these tools to build efficient, event-driven architectures. This integration streamlines the development process, accelerating the prototyping, iteration, and deployment of location-based experiences. With Amazon Location, organizations can rapidly enhance their offerings with geospatial features, reducing time-to-market and allowing developers to focus on core product development.

...Since it was so easy to get started and implement Amazon Location Service, our application was up and running in production in 2 weeks. Our ability to develop at this speed ensured readiness for the state department of transportation review date. We’ve done the review with the state and they approved our solution, we are now rolling it out to multiple company divisions for their upcoming state regulatory needs...

Charles Evans, Chief Technology Officer at Command Alkon