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GROUND SEGMENT · OPERATOR PROFILE · DATA AS OF 2026-07-20

AWS Ground Station

Active AMZN Ground Segment Subsidiary HQ: Seattle, Washington Founded 2018

Amazon's cloud-based Ground-Station-as-a-Service product. Pay-per-minute antenna contacts in 12 AWS regions worldwide. Direct competitor to KSAT and Viasat RTE for LEO Earth-observation downlink.

52.7
ARI Composite
Moderate Risk
#21 of 66
Peer Rank
Manufacturing cohort
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Total Launches
No flights tracked
AMZN
Market cap
NASDAQ

FINANCIAL HEALTH

52.7
ARI composite · Moderate Risk
Peer rank#21 of 66
Peer groupManufacturing
Data coverage45%
Full finance profile →

RECENT DEALS & CONTRACTS

Date Type Amount Counterparty Significance
Jun 25, 2026 Contract Award $13.00B — Critical

Full deal history →

SECTOR POSITION

Primary sectorGround Segment
Rank within sector#21 of 66
Tracked peers66
Secondary sectors
Orbital Data Centers

RECENT COVERAGE

Date Source Headline
Jul 01, 2026 Data Center Dynamics AWS launches Secret Cloud for Industry
Jun 25, 2026 Data Center Dynamics AWS pledges further $13bn investment in AI and cloud infrastructure in India
Jun 19, 2026 Data Center Dynamics AWS launches Local Zone cloud location in Hanoi, Vietnam

REGISTRY DATA

Legal nameAmazon Web Services Ground Station
Ticker / ExchangeAMZN (NASDAQ)
OwnershipSubsidiary
HeadquartersSeattle, Washington
CountryUS
Founded2018
ParentAmazon.com, Inc.
AliasesAWS Ground Station, aws-ground-station, aws_ground_station, AWS GS, Amazon Web Services Ground Station, AWS
Key programsAWS Ground Station service, Antenna-as-a-service (pay-per-minute), AWS Snowcone Edge satellite data ingest
Gov customersNASA, USSF, ESA
IPO statusParent (Amazon) listed on NASDAQ

Source: space_company_registry.json · Operator homepage → · Official AWS Ground Station locations page — confirms 12-region GSaaS network.

METHODOLOGY

Launch history and subsystem outcomes aggregate from AstraVeris's launch_events table with Wilson 95% lower bounds on success rates. ARI scores come from the 11-factor composite (/finance/methodology/). Constellation counts derive from the live CelesTrak/GCAT object catalog. Gov contracts from USAspending.gov awards; private deals from deduplicated pipeline deal extraction. Absence of a row means "not tracked" — we never fabricate. See /methodology/ for the full data model and /data-licensing/ for licensing terms.

Not investment advice. For insurance underwriting, verify against primary-source filings and operator investigation reports.