AWS Snowball Reviews and details

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

  This is still a common thing. Amazon has AWS Snowball [1] (up to 210 TB), Backblaze has Fireball [2] (96 TB), and I'm sure there are others. [1]: https://aws.amazon.com/snowball/ [2]: https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-storage/features/fireball-data-migration. - Source: Hacker News / 14 days ago

• AWS To Provide Free Data Transfer Out To Internet

  If you have extremely large amounts of data to transfer, such as hundreds of petabytes or into exabytes, AWS Snowmobile can move up to 100PB at once via a ruggedized shipping container. The ruggedized shipping container is tamper-resistant, water-resistant, temperature controlled, and GPS-tracked. The service was announced in 2016, and one of the trucks shown during a presentation that year at AWS re-Invent:. - Source: dev.to / about 2 months ago

• AWS To Provide Free Data Transfer Out To Internet

  AWS Snowball has a number of devices optimized for edge computing and data transfer. The service allows you to order a ruggedized device that can hold multiple terrabytes to petabytes of data, to transfer to AWS. - Source: dev.to / about 2 months ago

• AWS To Provide Free Data Transfer Out To Internet

  If you have extremely large amounts of data to transfer, such as hundreds of petabytes or into exabytes, AWS Snowmobile can move up to 100PB at once via a ruggedized shipping container. The ruggedized shipping container is tamper-resistant, water-resistant, temperature controlled, and GPS-tracked. The service was announced in 2016, and one of the trucks shown during a presentation that year at AWS re-Invent:. - Source: dev.to / about 2 months ago

• Can they email between Pegasus and Earth?

  I'm sure once they got the BC-304s making regular round trips they dropped of a couple of AWS snowmobile trailers. For boosting their computing power and make copies of the Atlantis database to send back to Earth for more in depth analysis. Source: 5 months ago

• NASA's Psyche Spacecraft, Optical Comms Demo En Route to Asteroid

  A concrete example is AWS Snowmobile which claims up to 100PB in transit via a shipping container. https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• 95 bits per second

  It's still a valid form of data transport today. AWS will (literally) ship you a 45-foot container with 100PB of storage for shifting bits around: https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

• I raced a homing pigeon against the Internet [video]

  For terabyte-scale data it might make sense to send it along with a person, but for larger amounts there are definitely services to help handle the process. He mentioned AWS Snowmobile in the video, but they also have a lower-volume equivalent: AWS Snowball [1]. It's basically just a suitcase-sized device that you plug in, upload data to, and ship to the destination. They have some really nice features to help... - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

• Back in 2010, Pigeons in South Africa were faster than the Internet.

  The AWS Snowmobile allows you to "transfer up to 100 PB per Snowmobile, a 45-foot-long ruggedized shipping container pulled by a semi-trailer truck.". Source: 9 months ago

• Need very fast upload location.

  If you’re looking to move a big chunk of data to AWS then AWS Snowball is what you need. Source: 10 months ago

• How do you transfer LARGE amounts of data?

  Hell I'd see if there's a smaller alternative to the AWS Snowmobile truck. (Link for the uninitiated: https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/). Source: 11 months ago

• Saved the files but at a cost.

  Amazon has a service for that. https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/. Source: 11 months ago

• Quora is a lawless place

  Amazon literally does this. They drive a whole shipping container out to whatever data center needs to do the transfer. There's also smaller variants. Source: 11 months ago

• Tape Storage Trundles On, Increases Yearly Volume to 128 Exabytes

  If the need is there, AWS will park a 45' long shipping container outside your place that can hold up to 100PB. https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/ Or you can get a Snowball that holds 80TB. These you just ship via UPS. - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

• Husband has to fly over to London UK to pick up hard drive he bought from eBay... isn't this unusual for an eBay seller?

  Amazon do a service the ingest data into AWS that, if you have the need, they will send a lorry full of drives to your premises. Though that's used for peta/exabyte size transfers. Source: 12 months ago

• ELI5 - A friend of mine in IT is always talking about the “secondary” or “private” internet network that big name corporations operate on, outside of “normal internet” traffic. What is this network, and how is it accessed?

  The first tier is called Snowball, where they ship what is basically a computer with 80 TB of storage to your office, you fill it up and ship it back to them. Source: 12 months ago

• ELI5 - A friend of mine in IT is always talking about the “secondary” or “private” internet network that big name corporations operate on, outside of “normal internet” traffic. What is this network, and how is it accessed?

  The second tier is Snowmobile where they pack a shipping container with 45 PB of storage, stack it on an 18-wheeler and park it in front of your building. Source: 12 months ago

• Learning AWS is costing me a fortune - tell me I'm not alone?

  Yeah the UI is confusing. I was just trying to deploy my Wordpress site and I ended up ordering a Snowmobile. Source: 12 months ago

• MRI Brain Images Just Got 64 Million Times Sharper. From 2 mm resolution to 5 microns

  Eh it's okay, AWS has the hospital's back to save on data transfer fees: https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/. Source: about 1 year ago

• ITT we post our internet speeds

  Amazon can send you a whole truck to transfer huge amounts of data: https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/. Source: about 1 year ago

• Move 1PB of S3 data to another account

  I wonder if snowball might be a good solution? Https://aws.amazon.com/snowball/. Source: about 1 year ago