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

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

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.

“You can transfer up to 100PB per Snowmobile, a 45-foot long rugged sized shipping container, pulled by a semi-trailer truck.” (HN, 2019)

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@pizza Jan 2019 Cites it

on HN thread Twitter migrates data to Google Cloud

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." [this video]

AWS presentation of Snowmobile truck for moving exabyte-scale data

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@Animats Apr 2024 Cites it

on HN thread WD Ultrastar Transporter: Briefcase with 368TB of NVMe SSD, 128GB RAM, 1300W PSU

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] [this video]

AWS Snowmobile for the biggest data transfers

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@sillysaurus3 Sep 2017 Makes a joke

on HN thread Wozniak and Copps: Ending net neutrality will end the Internet as we know it

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

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