Santos’s journey to cloud-based subsurface computing on AWS
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This article describes how Santos, a top 20 global oil and gas producer, modernized its subsurface computing environment by migrating from distributed on-premises infrastructure to a centralized cloud-based platform on AWS.
- Migrated 4.5 PB of mission-critical seismic and reservoir data using AWS DataSync with zero downtime
- Deployed Amazon EC2 P5e GPU instances for GPU-accelerated reservoir simulation and ML training, achieving 90% faster execution
- Implemented Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP for high-performance shared storage with 12 GBps throughput and automatic tiering
- Provisioned Amazon WorkSpaces Core Managed Instances with Leostream orchestration for 200+ geoscientists to access GPU-powered visualization
- Designed architecture to meet Australia's Security of Critical Infrastructure Act with data residency in Sydney region
- Eliminated HPC queue delays, accelerated decision cycles, and freed IT staff from infrastructure management
Santos's cloud-based subsurface computing platform demonstrates that demanding upstream workloads can migrate to AWS for superior performance, agility, and cost-efficiency while supporting future AI/ML innovation.
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