Amazon is taking sneakernet big time

Amazon has announced what it is calling AWS Snowmobile. The name, is no doubt, building off its current AWS Snowball service, and it's taking the notion of physically transporting data both seriously and big time.

Amazon has designed a system for moving data that includes trucks, cameras, and encryption that customers can use to move absolutely super-colossal volumes of data to its cloud services. The company has done the math, and given the enormity of the numbers they're using, it is faster to copy files to mobile media and move it over the road than to copy it directly over the wire.

The term sneakernet is a tongue-in-cheek colloquialism for a method of moving data around. At one point copying files onto diskettes or CDs in order to bring them from computer to computer was just how it was done. Fast networks and a reliance on Wi-Fi makes the practice look antiquated, to say the least.

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