AWS re:Invent 2016: Move Exabyte-Scale Data Sets with AWS Snowmobile
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN cites it as the example of physically trucking data when network transfer is impractical.
What it is
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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What Hacker News said
Cites pizza · 2019-01 · on “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]
Cites Animats · 2024-04 · on “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]