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AWS re:Invent 2016: Move Exabyte-Scale Data Sets with AWS Snowmobile

Amazon Web Services · 237.6K views · 2016-12-01 · 3:39

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AWS's short promo for Snowmobile, a 45-foot shipping container pulled by a semi truck that moves up to 100PB of data to AWS.

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HN cites it as the example of physically trucking data when network transfer is impractical.

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Animats · 2024-04 · Reference

AWS has a whole line of these, their "Snow" product line.[1] There's the "Snowcone", the "Snowball", and, for those really big transfers, the "Snowmobile".[2] [1] [LINK] [2] [VIDEO]

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pizza · 2019-01 · Reference

The scale of these megacorps is crazy! I wonder how you even plan to move that much data. I know that Amazon has a service called Snowmobile for stuff like this. They probably did something similar here. "You can transfer up to 100PB per Snowmobile, a 45-foot long rugged sized shipping container, pulled by a semi-trailer truck." [VIDEO]

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sillysaurus3 · 2017-09 · Joke / meme

[VIDEO] "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes barreling down the highway at 70mph."

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