20OESS Simplifying and Enhancing the User Experience with Metadata Catalog as a Service

The National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service (NESDIS) is moving to an enterprise ground capability in the cloud, taking advantage of the increased flexibility and scalability that the technology offers. NESDIS developed its Common Cloud framework (NCCF) built within AWS commercial and leverages AWS services to deliver a framework of data management services. One of the key services planned for the Enterprise is development of a metadata catalog as a service to promote data discovery and access for the public. This presentation will describe major features and challenges of the NCCF metadata catalog service.