All about Amazon Location Service

With Amazon Location, you retain control of your organization’s data. Amazon Location anonymizes all queries sent to data providers by removing customer metadata and account information. Additionally, sensitive tracking and geofencing location information, such as facility, asset, and personnel locations, does not leave your AWS account at all. This helps you protect sensitive information from third parties, protect user privacy, and reduce your application’s security risks. With Amazon Location, Amazon and third parties do not have the right to sell your data or use it for advertising.

Amazon Location is fully integrated with services such as AWS CloudTrail, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon EventBridge, and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM). Amazon Location simplifies your development workflow with data integration, and fast tracks apps to production with built-in monitoring, security, and compliance features.

It looks like this:

Amazon location service maps

Amazon Location Service Places lets you integrate search functionality into your application, convert addresses into geographic coordinates in latitude and longitude (geocoding), and convert a coordinate into a street address (reverse geocoding). Amazon Location Service sources high-quality geospatial data from Esri and HERE to support Places functions.

Places search

And this API will give you a JSON response like this

Places API respone

Amazon Location Service Routes lets you find routes and estimate travel time based on up-to-date roadway and live traffic information. Build features that allow your application to request the travel time, distance, and directions between any two locations. Calculate the time and distance for a matrix of routes to use in route planning.

Route calculation

Route API respose

Amazon Location Service Geofences lets you give your application the ability to detect and act when a device enters or exits a defined geographical boundary known as a geofence. Automatically send an entry or exit event to Amazon EventBridge when a geofence breach is detected. This lets you initiate downstream actions such as sending a notification to a target.

Geofence

Geofence API respone

Amazon Location Service Trackers lets you retrieve the current and historical location of devices that are running your tracking-enabled application. You can also link trackers with Amazon Location Service geofences to evaluate location updates from your devices against your geofences automatically. Trackers can help you reduce costs by filtering position updates that haven’t moved before storing or evaluating them against geofences.

When you use trackers, sensitive location information on your tracked devices does not leave your AWS account. This helps protect sensitive information from third parties, protect user privacy, and reduce security risks.

Tracker service

Tracker API Respone

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