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> Also, how will this magic Amazon "Tape Gateway" back up petabytes over slow links? Easy: it won't. If you have more data than bandwidth, you won't use this s
by jaywalk 4y ago
> Also, how will this magic Amazon "Tape Gateway" back up petabytes over slow links?
Easy: it won't. If you have more data than bandwidth, you won't use this service. Not sure why you seem to think otherwise.
- brudgers 4y agoAmazon has a service to send a semi-trailer to the loading dock of your data warehouse, so you can forklift in pallets of physical media. Then hauls it all away for ingestion into its cloud. Or, if it will fit in your station wagon, you can haul your data down the highway to one of Amazon's clouds. Or put it in a box and ship it Fedex.
- luhn 4y agoThat's not quite how it works. Amazon will send you various storage appliances (including a semi hauling a 45ft shipping container full of hard drives), which you connect to your network, upload your data, and send it back to them. They don't accept pallets of arbitrary media devices. https://aws.amazon.com/snow/ https://aws.amazon.com/snow/
- brudgers 4y agoThanks. I started from Tanenbaum’s hurtling station wagon and used my poetic license without worrying too much that the parent commentor would buy a forklift before talking to AWS sales.