How Amazon uses 18-wheelers to transfer heavy data loads to the cloud

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Moving petabytes of data to a cloud like Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure just by sending it out over the internet can take years. Using this equipment can save money, too, because moving data over a network in the usual way can get expensive. One business with big data, DigitalGlobe — a subsidiary of Maxar Technologies, came up with a more radical idea. AWS wound up announcing its Snowmobile 18-wheel truck for this exact purpose in 2016. AWS executive Bill Vass told CNBC that the Snowmobile is seeing adoption from cybersecurity, government and media customers.

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