What is Amazon Location Service
Amazon Location Service is a fully-managed service that makes it easy to add location functionality to your applications. Amazon Location uses high-quality geospatial data to provide capabilities such as maps, places, routes, trackers, and geofences. In addition to these capabilities, Amazon Location helps you maintain control of your data for privacy and security. It enables you to access location data simply with developer tools and move your applications to production faster with included monitoring and management capabilities.
This video provides an overview of the Amazon Location service.
With Amazon Location Service, you can add powerful location data and functionality to your applications. This includes capabilities such as maps, places (search and geocoding), routes, geofences, and trackers. Amazon Location provides location-based services (LBS) with high-quality data with global coverage. With its affordable data, geofences and trackers features, and built-in metrics for health monitoring, you can build sophisticated location-enabled applications.
With Amazon Location, you are in control of your organization's data. It anonymizes queries sent to data providers by removing customer metadata and account information. Moreover, sensitive tracking and geofences location information, such as facility, asset, and personnel locations, never leaves your AWS account. This approach helps protect sensitive information from third parties, safeguard user privacy, and reduce security risks for your application. Amazon Location also ensures that neither Amazon nor third parties have rights to sell your data or use it for advertising.
With Amazon Location Service, you can easily and seamlessly integrated your application with other AWS services, streamlining your development workflow and speeding up deployment. It works seamlessly with AWS CloudTrail, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon EventBridge, and AWS Identity and Access Management. With this integration, you can easily manage resources and cost, monitor health metrics, and automatically respond to events, thanks to its built-in monitoring, security, and compliance features.
