by "Jcarr" (jcarr)
Published 04/06/2017 at 14:28
by "Jcarr" (jcarr)
Published 04/06/2017 at 14:28
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Need to backup your 100 million gigs (100 petabytes) of cat videos, dank memes, and Kinja’d gifs, but don’t have the internet speed to do it in under a few years? Call Amazon and they’ll send out a Snowmobile .
AWS Snowmobile is an Exabyte-scale data transfer service used to move extremely large amounts of data to AWS. You can transfer up to 100PB per Snowmobile, a 45-foot long ruggedized shipping container, pulled by a semi-trailer truck. Snowmobile makes it easy to move massive volumes of data to the cloud, including video libraries, image repositories, or even a complete data center migration. Transferring data with Snowmobile is secure, fast and cost effective.
After an initial assessment, a Snowmobile will be transported to your data center and AWS personnel will configure it for you so it can be accessed as a network storage target. When your Snowmobile is on site, AWS personnel will work with your team to connect a removable, high-speed network switch from Snowmobile to your local network and you can begin your high-speed data transfer from any number of sources within your data center to the Snowmobile. After your data is loaded, Snowmobile is driven back to AWS where your data is imported into Amazon S3 or Amazon Glacier .
Snowmobile uses multiple layers of security designed to protect your data including dedicated security personnel, GPS tracking, alarm monitoring, 24/7 video surveillance, and an optional escort security vehicle while in transit. All data is encrypted with 256-bit encryption keys managed through the AWS Key Management Service (KMS) and designed to ensure both security and full chain-of-custody of your data.
"HammerheadFistpunch" (hammerheadfistpunch)
04/06/2017 at 14:32, STARS: 5
I see you got your car and driver too. Freaking amazing idea. If you wreck though, its is a computer or car crash?
"AddictedToM3s - Drives a GC" (addictedtom3s)
04/06/2017 at 14:33, STARS: 4
So how long until we see a Fast and Furious style heist of that?
"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
04/06/2017 at 14:38, STARS: 5
I was just thinking that this would make a killer movie plot point.
"Jcarr" (jcarr)
04/06/2017 at 14:47, STARS: 0
Haha, yep. Was just reading it over lunch.
"spanfucker retire bitch" (lelykon)
04/06/2017 at 14:49, STARS: 2
The latency is fucking awful, but man oh man, the transfer speeds can’t be beat!
"Ash78, voting early and often" (ash78)
04/06/2017 at 14:50, STARS: 1
And then when it crashes on the way home, your entire Unsolved Mysteries marathon has to be put on hold for hours. Guests will leave the party. The night is ruined.
"TorqueToYield" (torquetoyield)
04/06/2017 at 14:56, STARS: 5
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.
"facw" (facw)
04/06/2017 at 15:02, STARS: 0
It’s truly scary how much bandwidth you get when you updated that with 256GB MicroSD cards. Too bad about the latency.
"AddictedToM3s - Drives a GC" (addictedtom3s)
04/06/2017 at 15:20, STARS: 1
I can imagine it now. There’s a rogue group of data thieves who are hired to steal the information on that snowmobile. They have cat 7 cables on winches that will connect to that truck as it’s going down a highway while the cars are weaving back and forth on an abandoned stretch of desert road. They’re successful however it’s only a few gigs of cat photos. That was just their trial interview run for the real job.
BWAAAAAAH. {Fast cut and black flashes to a car driving off a cliff and the crew on parachutes into the ocean and landing onto a speedboat with pursuing helicopters shooting at them}
I like to think that in another life I could’ve been a movie director.