AWS re:Invent 2016: Move Exabyte-Scale Data Sets with AWS Snowmobile
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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.
HN cites it as the example of physically trucking data when network transfer is impractical.
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[VIDEO] "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes barreling down the highway at 70mph."
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]
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]