Amazon Web Services (AWS) has ceased offering to transport data via an 18-wheeler truck after eight years. Announced in 2016 by bringing a semi-truck on stage, AWS Snowmobile was a 45 ft, 100 petabyte ...

Less than eight years after introducing the Snowmobile at its Reinvent conference in Las Vegas, Amazon has taken the 18-wheeler out of service. Amazon Web Services designed the semi to help customers ...

Customer demand for more efficient methods and faster online data transfer capabilities have led AWS to exit the data trucking business. Amazon Web Services (AWS) has slowly and silently phased out ...

At Amazon's annual cloud conference in 2016, the company captured the crowd's attention by driving an 18-wheeler onstage. Andy Jassy, now Amazon's CEO, called it the Snowmobile, and said the company ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has stopped offering to transport data via an 18-wheeler truck by retiring its Snowmobile service. Andy Jassy, now Amazon CEO, revealed Snowmobile at the company’s 2016 ...

If there is one thing we can be certain of, in this era of big data and the vast scaling up of the Internet of Things, is that the need for data storage (and plenty of it) is only going to grow, and ...

Amazon just announced a new service called AWS Snowmobile, which is a 21st century version of the classic “sneakernet” method of data transport. Basically, Amazon is offering to tow a 45-foot-long ...