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Author: Alexander Rey
Alexander Rey is the developer of Pirate Weather, an open weather API. Alexander completed a Ph.D. in coastal engineering from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, where his research focused on forecasting coastal impacts from tropical storms. He is passionate about making weather data as accessible as possible, and in his free time enjoys canoeing, hiking, skating, and skiing.
Making weather forecasts more accessible using serverless infrastructure and open data on AWS
As part of the Registry of Open Data on AWS, AWS invited Alexander Rey, creator of Pirate Weather, to share how AWS technologies and open data are supporting his efforts to provide a no cost and open weather forecast API.