Amazon is building a dozen satellite transmission facilities that it hopes will extend its lucrative cloud model into space (AMZN)

Amazon announced AWS Ground Station, a new product that will let businesses rent access to data from satellites.
The company plans to build 12 ground stations throughout the world, with two facilities operational on Tuesday.
LAS VEGAS — After expanding from retail sales to cloud computing, Amazon is now getting into satellites.
At the Amazon Web Services annual re:invent conference in Las Vegas on Tuesday, the company unveiled plans to build a dozen satellite transmission facilities t