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You are missing one of the really amazing services: Snowmobile (https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/ https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/). It is a real truck, that

by vladoh 6y ago

You are missing one of the really amazing services: Snowmobile (https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/ https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/). It is a real truck, that connects to your data center, copies up to 100 PB of data and drives back to one of the AWS data centers and dumps the data there...

capableweb 6y ago
"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a truck full of hard-drives driving down the highway" or however the saying goes. Latency is extremely long, but the bandwidth is crazy once it's arrive! Edit: Original quote (seems I accidentally modernized it a bit): > Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway – Andrew Tanenbaum, 1981
kyawzazaw 6y ago
And the companion Snowball (https://aws.amazon.com/snowball/ https://aws.amazon.com/snowball/)