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Amazon Snowmobile will transfer petabytes of data faster than ever

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 12/05/2016 09:23 AM | source: | 10 comment(s)
Amazon Snowmobile will transfer petabytes of data faster than ever

Amazon has a new service that makes Google Fiber seem slow. It actually rides on 18 wheels and is a truck moving around a huge HDD.

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.

Amazon announced the new service, confusingly named Snowmobile, at its Re:Invent conference in Las Vegas this week. It’s designed to shuttle as many as 100 petabytes–around 100,000 terabytes–per truck. That’s enough storage to hold five copies of the Internet Archive (a comprehensive backup of the web both present and past), which contains “only” about 18.5 petabytesof unique data.
  

 
Amazon has long let businesses ship hard disks full of data to Amazon for uploading into the retail giant’s cloud. But copying 100 petabytes to individual hard drives isn’t practical. Snowmobile acts like a giant hard drive that comes to you.

Using multiple semis to shuttle data around might seem like overkill. But for such massive amounts of data, hitting the open road is still the most efficient way to go. Even with a one gigabit per-second connection such as Google Fiber, uploading 100 petabytes over the internet would take more than 28 years. At an average speed of 65 mph, on the other hand, you could drive a Snowmobile from San Francisco to New York City in about 45 hours—about 4,970 gigabits per second. That doesn’t count the time it takes to actually transfer the data onto Snowmobile–which Amazon estimates will take less than 10 days–or from the Snowmobile onto Amazon’s servers. But all told, that still makes the truck much, much faster. And because Amazon has data centers throughout the country, your data probably won’t need to travel cross-country anyway. 

“On the security side, Snowmobile incorporates multiple layers of logical and physical protection, including chain-of-custody tracking and video surveillance,” Amazon cloud evangelist Jeff Barr wrote in a blog post announcing the service. In other words, Amazon is keeping a close eye on your data while it’s on the road. Each truck is weather-proofed and tamper-resistant and all data is encrypted, Barr says.

The big question is whether there are many businesses out there who need or want such as service. Snowmobile is an outgrowth of an existing Amazon service called Snowball, in which Amazon sends customers an appliance that can hold 80 terabytes of data. Customers fill this up and ship it back to Amazon, which uploads it directly into its cloud.

Apparently Snowball wasn’t quite enough for some customers. In fact, Amazon seems to believe that some companies will need multiple Snowmobiles. The site advertises itself as capable of handling data at the exabytesscale—or by Amazon’s new measurement, ten truckloads.








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Unilythe
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#5366427 Posted on: 12/05/2016 09:53 AM
Sure, the bandwidth of this new innovative system is amazing, but the latency is just atrocious.

Aniboom
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#5366431 Posted on: 12/05/2016 10:08 AM
For that moment when your friend asks for your porn stash. :)
****s and giggles aside, I've never thought that a manual haul will ever be considered as the faster way to move data around.

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#5366440 Posted on: 12/05/2016 10:33 AM
My boss is going to be freaking out for the next week because of this, and not in a good way... But I'm not surprised amazon has finally gotten into this market.

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#5366470 Posted on: 12/05/2016 12:20 PM
****s and giggles aside, I've never thought that a manual haul will ever be considered as the faster way to move data around.

At work, there have been times it's been quicker to next day mail someone a USB drive with data on than try to send it over the net.

Encrypted, of course :).

asturur
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#5366472 Posted on: 12/05/2016 12:26 PM
but why 6 months? how slow is this truck and how long takes to fill it up?

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