AWS re:Invent 2016: Move Exabyte-Scale Data Sets with AWS Snowmobile
Amazon Web ServicesCited 3× on HN, 2017–2024
news · general · 2017–2024 on HN
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.
HN cites it as the example of physically trucking data when network transfer is impractical.
Up next
10 mo on HNVelocity NY 2013: Richard Cook, "Resilience In Complex Adaptive Systems"
O'Reilly
4 HN recommender · 2017–2021
11 mo on HNDebugging Under Fire: Keep your Head when Systems have Lost their Mind • Bryan Cantrill • GOTO 2017
GOTO Conferences
8 HN recommender · 2018–2025
9 mo on HNAWS re:Invent 2018: Amazon DynamoDB Deep Dive: Advanced Design Patterns for DynamoDB (DAT401)
Amazon Web Services
12 HN recommender · 2019–2025
9 mo on HNLiterate Devops with Emacs
Howard Abrams
8 HN recommender · 2015–2025
6 mo on HNContainers From Scratch • Liz Rice • GOTO 2018
GOTO Conferences
6 HN recommender · 2018–2025
6 mo on HNOver 200,000 Servers in One Place! Visiting Hetzner in Falkenstein (Germany)
der8auer EN
6 HN recommender · 2021–2025
5 mo on HNBryan Cantrill from Joyent on Manta: internet-facing object storage facility that features compute
AI Council
4 HN recommender · 2014–2026
6 mo on HNZebras All the Way Down - Bryan Cantrill, Uptime 2017
Code & Supply
6 HN recommender · 2018–2025
5 mo on HNElixirConf 2018 - Docker and OTP Friends or Foes - Daniel Azuma
ElixirConf
4 HN recommender · 2018–2023
6 mo on HNStanford Seminar - The Soul of a New Machine: Rethinking the Computer
Stanford Online
3 HN recommender · 2020–2025
5 mo on HNAWS re:Invent 2016: Tuesday Night Live with James Hamilton
Amazon Web Services
5 HN recommender · 2016–2023
5 mo on HNHow We've Scaled Dropbox
Stanford
5 HN recommender · 2014–2023
3 comments from Hacker News
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
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
▶ this video "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes barreling down the highway at 70mph."