Amazon cloud unit kills Snowmobile data transfer truck eight years after driving 18-wheeler onstage
Amazon Web Services Snowmobile TruckCNBCAt 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 would be using the truck to help customers speedily transfer data to Amazon Web Services facilities.Less than eight years later, the semi is out of commission.As of March, AWS had removed Snowmobile from its website, and the Amazon unit has stopped offering the...
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