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 ...

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 ...

It’s long been known that the fastest data transfer rate can be physical media delivered by courier. Amazon has taken this to an extreme, by announcing Snowmobile, an 18-wheeler semi-trailer truck ...

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 ...

Big data, meet your big rig. Amazon Web Services took containerization technology to new levels yesterday when it unveiled plans to use 45-foot trailers equipped with scads of disk and fast fiber ...

"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 ...