Demand for bulk storage on wheels turned out to be wan
Amazon Web Services is abandoning its fleet of Snowmobile data haulers, the trucks packed with petabytes of spinning disks designed to get large enterprises into the cloud., Snowmobile offered a way to transfer very large amounts of information into the public cloud, recognition that it’s hard to shift exabytes over a wide-area network.
Why? Apparently because AWS has come up with better, most cost-effective ways of getting your data into its cloud datacenters that don't require hiring drivers, guards, fuel, and a security escort.AWS severs connection with several hundred staff It also appears that the service just wasn't that popular, with an Amazon spokesperson saying clients generally found it to be less expensive to upload their data than hire a Snowmobile. It probably didn't help that Snowmobile was kind of a one-and-done operation, making it a bit of a niche offering tailored toward mass migrations.
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