Reading a book on AWS. It talks about AWS snowmobile. It's a service to move 100PB of data from onprem to AWS. I wonder if this thing is an urban legend or does it actually exist. Has anyone taken a selfie with that thing in the background? In my mind it's like that Mad Max Fury Road war machine carrying 100 PB of data... with Azure and GCP guys chasing it from all sides
Thats a marketing gimmick. Nobody moves 100 pb in one go. Generally companies moves one workload of few PBs at a time.
So the truck doesn't exist .... It's just PPT talk?
There was talk by twitter why they chose google cloud and how they are doing migration of 300PB of data. Fast forward to 35 mins for migration steps. https://youtu.be/4FLFcWgZdo4 TL,DR is that companies move their data very cautiously and monitors each step, nobody would put all their data in a truck and send for upload.
Jassy the kinda gangsta that brings a friggin semi truck on stage at a major global tech conference... So yeah, people have seen it 'exists', but I doubt there's any real customer using it.
I've seen it. It even comes with the skeletal guitar dude hanging from the front.
It would've looked really cool in 1990s movies tho... "that data's going nowhere punk!" (proceeds to take down the driver)
It exists, and had been used by at least one company prior to rolling onto stage at re:Invent last year.
Any photo video? I find stage events to be phony (used to work in Microsoft. Everything they did on stage was fake)
Wouldn't it be more of an armored truck?