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To be fair, AWS launched a much, much larger analogue to AWS Snowball. https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/ https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/

• nealmueller 9y ago
  Hahaha, you got me there. Althought, to be fair, Snowmobile is an entirely different product category. Same problem, different scale of solution. It's like Starbucks coming out with a truck solution, when all you wanted was a Venti.
  • bpicolo 9y ago
    Espresso trucks sound awesome.
    • dwyerm 9y ago
      Interestingly, Starbucks does have both a trailer solution and a shipping-container solution. The former is parked out front when the actual store is undergoing refurbishment. The latter is seemingly air-dropped into neighborhoods like Northglenn, CO and Ballard, WA. Coincidentally, Starbuck's first shipping container store is just a mile or two from Amazon's first use of the Snowmobile.
• Jyaif 9y ago
  "Snowmobile uses multiple layers of security designed to protect your data including dedicated security personnel, GPS tracking, alarm monitoring, 24/7 video surveillance, and an optional escort security vehicle" The data is encrypted, so that part is really just to impress the commoner.
  • losteric 9y ago
    I assume these services were originally created to meet government contracting requirements (transporting highly classified information).
    • compuguy 9y ago
      That would require a whole other set of security requirements than this has.
• brian_herman 9y ago
  Plus they did a really cute lego blogpost. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-snowmobile-move-exabytes-of-data-to-the-cloud-in-weeks/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-snowmobile-move-exabyte...