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Comment by bpicolo | Hacker News Reader

To be fair, AWS launched a much, much larger analogue to AWS Snowball. https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/

"Snowmobile uses multiple layers of security designed to protect your data including dedicated security personnel, GPS tracking, alarm monitoring, 24/7 video surveillance, and an optional escort security vehicle"

The data is encrypted, so that part is really just to impress the commoner.

I assume these services were originally created to meet government contracting requirements (transporting highly classified information).

That would require a whole other set of security requirements than this has.

Hahaha, you got me there. Althought, to be fair, Snowmobile is an entirely different product category. Same problem, different scale of solution. It's like Starbucks coming out with a truck solution, when all you wanted was a Venti.

Espresso trucks sound awesome.

Interestingly, Starbucks does have both a trailer solution and a shipping-container solution. The former is parked out front when the actual store is undergoing refurbishment. The latter is seemingly air-dropped into neighborhoods like Northglenn, CO and Ballard, WA.

Coincidentally, Starbuck's first shipping container store is just a mile or two from Amazon's first use of the Snowmobile.

Plus they did a really cute lego blogpost. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-snowmobile-move-exabyte...

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