Amazon Truck Data Transfer. Migrate or transport exabyte scale data sets into and out of aws. Designed to meet the needs of our customers in the financial services media entertainment scientific and other industries snowmobile attaches to your network and appears as a local nfs mounted.
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Ai powered cameras installed in. It turns out that transferring the data to a truck holding a massive storage device downloading customer files to the truck driving it to an amazon facility then transferring it to amazons cloud service is faster. The snowmobile can be filled.
The snowmobile is a big white semi trailer that can hold 100pb of data.
Snowball addresses challenges like high network costs long transfer times and security concerns to. Amazon will back it up to a customers data center and the truck can handle data transfers of up to 1tb per second by hooking up multiple 40gbps fiber connections. Amazon has trucks filled with hard drives and an armed guard. Amazon is aiming to speed that process up with a high capacity data transfer product.