The increase in data volumes from Earth Observation (EO) data in the past decade has led to an emergence of cloud-based services in recent years, but within their own data silos, often behind their respective data access methods.

In response, the European Weather Cloud (EWC) emerged as a "community cloud" for the public space sector and research institutions, allowing users to provide computing resources close to the data and foster collaboration. However, its Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) model introduced challenges, requiring climate scientists to acquire new skills for managing and provisioning infrastructure, diverting focus from EO data processing to cloud computing basics.

Recognizing these challenges, we believe that evolving the EWC into a platform tailored for EO scientists, offering higher-level services and abstractions, is the future.

In our presentation, we will demonstrate the evolution of our services, the challenges we faced, and how we tried to overcome them.