News Amazon Saved Over 10PB of Vital Ukrainian Data Using Snowball Edge SSDs

[Admin]

Amazon saved 10 petabytes of crucial Ukrainian government data using briefcase d SSDs.

Amazon Saved Over 10PB of Vital Ukrainian Data Using Snowball Edge SSDs : Read more

 

[peachpuff]

Hope they saved all of the putin memes 😂

 

[3tank]

I'm sure Hunter's business dealings still managed to get lost though

 

[TheOtherOne]

The first step of building Skynet? Get hold onto all the Govts. of world's data at one place!

 

[RichardtST]

Uh, no. I've been there. I can assure you that there was exactly zero vital data in Ukraine. Unless you count the bribery records and such. But I'm sure all that will get "destroyed" anyway.

 

[bit_user]

AWS shipped custom-built Snowball Edge solid-state drives to Poland and then drove them to Ukraine.

With these "Snowball Edge" boxes being shuttled in and out of an active war zone, I'm a little surprised there were no "snowball's chance in hell" jokes in that article.

 

[Co BIY]

Interesting that a large part of the data were physically transferred in a mobile storage unit. Seems like the cloud was designed to avoid such things.

How many 4 TB M.2 SSDs can fit in a suitcase ? (10PB is about 2500 4TB drives)

For those interested in how this goes in more detail -

How AWS Snowball Edge Works

 

[bit_user]

Interesting that a large part of the data were physically transferred in a mobile storage unit. Seems like the cloud was designed to avoid such things.

No way. Sneaker-net is still the fastest way to move large volumes of data.