美国天气公司应用云服务的经验与借鉴

Experiences and References from the Application of Cloud Services in The Weather Company

美国天气公司(The Weather Company,TWC)通过云服务,实现了非常高效的数据计算、存储和发布功能,每天可以处理上百亿次的数据为全球用户提供服务。简单介绍了美国天气公司的云服务策略以及其云计算、云存储、云平台数据分析与云平台研发等业务的情况。美国天气公司的云服务应用经验可以为国内气象服务云服务的推广和应用提供技术、观念、安全和成本等方面的借鉴。

The Weather Company （TWC） in USA supplies its weather services to global customers through the cloud computing services. It can finish tens of billions of data processing, storage and distribution through Amazon web service in an high-effciency way. In this paper, we introduce its cloud service strategies, its services on cloud storage, data analysis and its R＆D on cloud computing platform. These experiences could help us on the utilization of cloud service. We can form our own technology, concept, security policy and cost concept on cloud service by referring to the cloud computing service experiences from TWC.