What IS it about AWS and the opaque naming of their services?! There is a reason this exists: https://www.expeditedssl.com/aws-in-plain-english
AWS Snowmobile – Massive Exabyte-Scale Data Transfer Service
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#12This reminds me of rfc1149 - A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers - https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1149.txt
Still, if they made similar terabyte-scale service but using drones, I'd try it just for the heck of it.
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#13If one of these jackknifes enroute is that called a 'snowcrash'?
"Ended up in the rhubarb" or similar variation seems like the most appropriate snowmobile slang.
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#14Who even has that much data, outside of Google and Facebook? I mean - I totally believe there are people that do have that much, I just don't know who they are. Fake Edit: Film?
There is an example in the blog post about DigitalGlobe.
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-snowmobile-move-exabyte...
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#15Fun, old school massive data transfer as a service. For those of you too lazy to do the math, filling up one of these trucks to capacity (100PB) would run your 500,000 USD per month, ~17k per day (purely for transit). Edit: I assume that you'd only get charged for the time your vehicle is in transit, though the pricing info doesn't make that super clear. Also, as pointed out, list rates may differ from bulk rates.
It also provides 1Tbps of aggregated bandwidth (in form of multiple 40Gbps interfaces).
According to FAQ, billing starts when it leaves AWS DC and ends after data ingestion is complete.
So roughly minimum (list) price (1 day transit one-way) for transferring that 100PB would roughly be: (100PB/1Tbps * 2 + 2 days) * (($0.005/GB * 100PB)/month) ~= 337k. ~$0.00337/GB
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#16What IS it about AWS and the opaque naming of their services?! There is a reason this exists: https://www.expeditedssl.com/aws-in-plain-english
Those names assume a decent amount of technical understanding. A lot of times the people who will end up paying big bucks for these services don't know what transactional E-mail is, so calling it SES or Amazon Transaction E-mail wouldn't make a difference. So, they go with a "cool" name.
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#17I started reading this thinking it was joke, I was very surprised when i realised its a real service. amazing. What kind of applications use so much data and are at the same time for them its cost effective to move them to the cloud?
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#18I started reading this thinking it was joke, I was very surprised when i realised its a real service. amazing. What kind of applications use so much data and are at the same time for them its cost effective to move them to the cloud?
You're not paying listed rates if you're moving 100PB+ into S3 or Glacier.
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#19If one of these jackknifes enroute is that called a 'snowcrash'?
"Ended up in the rhubarb" or similar variation seems like the most appropriate snowmobile slang.
Grandparent was probably referencing the Neal Stephenson novel[0].
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#20I started reading this thinking it was joke, I was very surprised when i realised its a real service. amazing. What kind of applications use so much data and are at the same time for them its cost effective to move them to the cloud?
You're not paying listed rates if you're moving 100PB+ into S3 or Glacier.
Well no, but I'm sure it's still pretty damn pricy.