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		Announcing AWS Snowmobile: exabyte-scale data transport (twitter.com/awsreinvent)
		8 points by forrestbrazeal on Nov 30, 2016 \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 4 comments

BrentOzar on Nov 30, 2016 | [–]

Short video of it driving into re:Invent:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BNcbFS0jD7J/

forrestbrazeal on Nov 30, 2016 | | [–]

And yep, it's literally a truck that they back up to your datacenter. They say you can transfer an exabyte of data into the cloud in six months using ten of these things.

jedberg on Nov 30, 2016 | [–]

I'm just impressed they actually got the semi on the stage.

forrestbrazeal on Nov 30, 2016 | [–]

I wonder if it was empty?

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