AWS Snowcone pricing here: https://aws.amazon.com/snowcone/pricing/
$60 to get 8TB into AWS is pretty good.
Unless you have incredible upload speeds it's massively faster than uploading that much data.
AWS Snowcone
111–120 of 221 posts
Re: AWS Snowcone
#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can speak to part of the rationality around Snowball: The old method of customers sending in hard disks and AWS importing them turned out to be _incredibly_ high touch. * Customers would put the wrong labels on the wrong drives. Given they were encrypted, and the label details were critical to matching the right disk with the right encryption key, that was a big issue. * Imports would routinely fail due to all sort…
Those are all really good points. I'm interested in hearing more about the NTFS quirks - what kind of issues were cropping up? Now I'm really curious what filesystem Snowball wound up standardizing on, and how/if file metadata/ACLs/alternate data streams are maintained.
Do those even matter if the final file destination is S3?
Re: AWS Snowcone
#113I wonder if AWS are shooting themselves in the foot (if these things become very popular), by making the "Cloud" a physical, tangible thing. I think part of the lustre for some customers is that they don't know what they're paying for when they start a 2 vCPU EC2 instance and must think it's something crazy complex and special. Now having it on your desk in a tiny little box will make them wonder what they pay so muc…
I don't think that's a very realistic outlook. Most money spent in aws is not by noobs going over their free tier not realizing they could have bought a raspberry pi; it's by institutions that are paying for convenience and know it.
Re: AWS Snowcone
#114I wonder if AWS are shooting themselves in the foot (if these things become very popular), by making the "Cloud" a physical, tangible thing. I think part of the lustre for some customers is that they don't know what they're paying for when they start a 2 vCPU EC2 instance and must think it's something crazy complex and special. Now having it on your desk in a tiny little box will make them wonder what they pay so muc…
if they don't do it, someone else will
Re: AWS Snowcone
#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
According to Speedtest.net [0], the average US internet speed is 138Mbps down/51Mbps up. That's certainly not amazing, but on average that's only ~2 weeks to upload 8 TB. I can certainly see where this makes more sense if you're below that average, though. 0: https://www.speedtest.net/global-index/united-states#fixed
Wow! That's very surprising. It's been a while since I lived without fibre; maybe DOCSIS got a lot smarter in the last few years?
It hasn't in the US. Comcast's 1G down is still 10Mbit up
Re: AWS Snowcone
#116I must not interact with big enough data to understand, but what is the point of this? I have watched/read several of the Snow product descriptions from AWS and I am still not quite sure I understand the point. It seems like a way to sync local big data to AWS cloud storage for data that is too large to realistically transfer via the internet. So is this simply a sneakernet external harddrive because physically shipp…
For a sense of scale, my company used an AWS Snowmobile to transfer 100PB of archived satellite imagery to AWS. More details here: https://blog.maxar.com/earth-intelligence/2017/digitalglobe-...
Just FYI your company has a cert mismatch on the following link from that blog post: https://platform.digitalglobe.com/gbdx/
The cert is limited to *.wpengine.com
And the link 404s so.. that's a shame. Was interested in learning more about the platform.
Re: AWS Snowcone
#117It's very tangential but what is the device shown next to the drive in the first picture? https://media.amazonwebservices.com/blog/2020/snowcone_jb_st...
I assumed it was here to give a sense of the relative size of the drive, but after staring at this picture for two minutes I genuinely have no idea what it is.
Actually at first I even wondered if that was the drive, since it's vaguely more in the shape of a snowcone than the drive itself.
Re: AWS Snowcone
#118At first I thought it was the bottle.
Re: AWS Snowcone
#119It's very tangential but what is the device shown next to the drive in the first picture? https://media.amazonwebservices.com/blog/2020/snowcone_jb_st... I assumed it was here to give a sense of the relative size of the drive, but after staring at this picture for two minutes I genuinely have no idea what it is. Actually at first I even wondered if that was the drive, since it's vaguely more in the shape of a snowcon…
I believe that's a water bottle
Re: AWS Snowcone
#120It's very tangential but what is the device shown next to the drive in the first picture? https://media.amazonwebservices.com/blog/2020/snowcone_jb_st... I assumed it was here to give a sense of the relative size of the drive, but after staring at this picture for two minutes I genuinely have no idea what it is. Actually at first I even wondered if that was the drive, since it's vaguely more in the shape of a snowcon…
Thermos bottle for keeping drinks cold or warm.