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    Efficient satellite imagery supply with AWS Serverless at BASF Digital Farming GmbH

    BASF Digital Farming’s mission is to support farmers worldwide with cutting-edge digital agronomic decision advice by using its main crop optimization platform, xarvio FIELD MANAGER. This blog post describes the serverless architecture developed by BASF Digital Farming for efficiently downloading and supplying satellite imagery from various providers to support its xarvio platform.

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    How an insurance company implements disaster recovery of 3-tier applications

    In this blog post, we explore how one of our customers, a US-based insurance company, uses cloud-native services to implement the disaster recovery of 3-tier applications. he requirement was to create a disaster recovery strategy that implements a Pilot Light or Warm/Standby scenario.

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