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

238K views · Dec 1, 2016 · 3:39 · 0 HN recommenders · 3 mentions · discussed 2017–2024

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.

Why Hacker News points people here: HN cites it as the example of physically trucking data when network transfer is impractical.

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

What Hacker News said 3

Cites itpizzaJan 2019

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

AWS presentation of Snowmobile truck for moving exabyte-scale data

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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

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Cites itAnimatsApr 2024

“for those really big transfers, the "Snowmobile".”

AWS Snowmobile for the biggest data transfers

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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

in “WD Ultrastar Transporter: Briefcase with 368TB of NVMe SSD, 128GB RAM, 1300W PSU” · view on HN
Jokesillysaurus3Sep 2017
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this video "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes barreling down the highway at 70mph."

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