Timeline of Amazon Web Services

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serpopardfossil · 9h ago
i dont know much about AWS but while I was waiting for team fortress 2 to install i read thru and this stood out to me:

> 2015 October 7

> Product (data migration)

> AWS launches Snowball, a physical appliance with 50 TB of storage and a Kindle on the side. Customers can get a Snowball for 10 days for $200, during which they can fill it with data and then ship it back to Amazon. The Snowball costs $15 for every additional day kept. This is the second generation of their data import/export hardware after a previous release in 2009

i wonder what kind of things people shipped around that required 50TB in physical storage. ten years later, 50TB still sounds like a lot today