Amazon Web Services (AWS) has ceased offering to transport data via an 18-wheeler truck after eight years. Announced in 2016 by bringing a semi-truck on stage, AWS Snowmobile was a 45 ft, 100 petabyte ...

Less than eight years after introducing the Snowmobile at its Reinvent conference in Las Vegas, Amazon has taken the 18-wheeler out of service. Amazon Web Services designed the semi to help customers ...

"AWS Snowball" is a hardware that stores 50 TB storage in a waterproof / shock-resistant case and can connect with 10 Gb Ethernet. Amazon Web Services event "AWS re: Invent 2016", Capacity increased ...

Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy used a tractor trailer as a prop and highlighted why the company is so alarming to incumbents. AWS is obsessed with solving customer issues and will go to great ...

If there is one thing we can be certain of, in this era of big data and the vast scaling up of the Internet of Things, is that the need for data storage (and plenty of it) is only going to grow, and ...

The AWS Snowmobile, capable of moving 100 petabyes of data from a data center into Amazon’s cloud, debuted to applause at re:Invent 2016 in Las Vegas on Nov. 30, 2016. (GeekWire Photos / Dan Richman) ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has stopped offering to transport data via an 18-wheeler truck by retiring its Snowmobile service. Andy Jassy, now Amazon CEO, revealed Snowmobile at the company’s 2016 ...

Moving large amounts of data to the cloud as part of a migration effort is challenging, but AWS has a solution. AWS has launched Snowmobile – a secure data truck which stores up to 100PB of data and ...