33 Guiding Good Governance This dashboard, located in the Amazon cloud, shows system health and stability by monitoring system utilization metrics for the IIPP Kubernetes cluster. “We hope that each partner should also see a cost reduction to some degree, and the more partners that join this imagery hosting co-operative, the cheaper it becomes for everybody. This is just the beginning,” Gillham said. Given its status as the first interagency data hosting solution, IIPP has gained a lot of attention. “There were some skeptics in the beginning,” Gillham said. “And as we keep progressing and getting over hurdle after hurdle, I think we’ve garnered more support and excitement.” Continual effort will be made to refine and enhance the system based on user feedback and technological advancements. The promise of this cloud approach goes well beyond an easier and cheaper imagery serving system. Ultimately, it’s about better answers. “For years, these systems have been siloed so one agency couldn’t access the other agency’s data or images or each other’s expertise,” Gillham said. “I foresee a time when somebody applies a deep learning model or processing algorithm that another agency developed that suddenly solves a pressing problem they struggled with. That’s the power of a collaboratively shared hosting system.”
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