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Amazon Snowball
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#3The e-ink display showing a shipping label is brilliant.
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#4The picture on the page doesn't give me an accurate estimate of the size. They are actually 50 pounds (says on the blog)!
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#5The XKCD about FedEx's bandwidth seems particularly appropriate: https://what-if.xkcd.com/31/
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#6An AWS version of a sneakernet.
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#7The picture on the page doesn't give me an accurate estimate of the size. They are actually 50 pounds (says on the blog)!
They demoed one on stage at re:invent just a bit ago, it is about the size of a desktop PC with hard plastic case all around it. I think he said it is ~47 lbs.
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#8An AWS version of a sneakernet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet
Yep, all I could think was "Wow, that's a good deal fancier than a station wagon full of tapes".
Cloud backup companies have had similar services for a while now, but it's nice to see AWS adopting it.
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#9Isn't this a bit risky? What happens if someone keeps it? 50TB is a lot more than $200.
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#10Another easy method to move your customers data to AWS - where I'm sure some three letter agenices feast over each newly arrived platter of data.
I'm still waiting for the big leak on how AWS cooperates with NSA at large.