The Hubverse is in the processing of making hub data available via publicly-accessible AWS S3 buckets.
Cloud-based hubs "mirror" the data stored in a hub's GitHub repository and provide a few advantages for data consumers:
- No need to clone a repository to access data
- Cloud-based model-output files are in parquet format, which is easier to work with and more performant
The examples here use the CDC's FluSight Forecast Hub, which is available in the following S3 bucket: