Context
WEkEO provides scalable computing solutions tailored to diverse user needs: from the free Innovation Lab for exploratory projects, to customizable Virtual Machines for flexible workloads, and high-performance computing options for intensive data processing, these plans are ensuring efficient access and analysis of Copernicus environmental data.
This article explains the key benefits of the Virtual Machines (Paid) plan, helping you understand how it can support your work with environmental data. Whether you're processing large datasets, running custom code, or need a flexible computing environment, discover how this plan can enhance your experience on the WEkEO platform.
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Advantages of the Virtual Machines plan
Here are the main assets of the Virtual Machines plan:
Possibility to create and manage your personal tenant in a fully scalable way. For example, you could change from a tenant with 2 VMs to 6000 VMs within “a day” and still beneficiate of all the WEkEO datasets for each VM
You have your processors directly where the data belong. It is an important asset for large dataset processing, or AI algorithms that require most of the time large input/output bandwith
Direct access to data via a file system without HDA API (you could choose also to still use the Harmonized Data Access (HDA) if your program is already using it)
Number of requests is no longer limited
Faster access to the data: as soon as the new data have been produced, they are available on WEKEO. You could immediately consume/launch processing on this “fresh” data, no need to wait for the “downloading delay”
Faster processing: for example the loading of a Sentinel-2 imagery (800MB) takes around 8 sec on WEKEO, while the download and then the loading in your own configuration could take much more time. It has to be compared to your own configuration (we can't tell how much faster, since it depends on many factors, but the gap is significant)
No cost for traffic in and out below the limit of 100 TB per month
WEkEO tenant could be in fix mode or pay per use mode or a mix of them for a full scalability capacity and an optimised pricing approach. A mix with GPU is also possible
In a nutshell, you have a faster, easier and unlimited access to WEkEO data! 🙌
What's next?
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