Company’s Snowball hardware lets developers expend postal service to bag higher bandwidth than their broadband serviceAmazon has advance up with a new system for getting huge amounts of data from your computers to theirs: send it by post. As computer science pioneer Andy Tanenbaum wrote: “Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.”The company’s new Snowball hardware is aimed at developers who expend Amazon Web Services, the increasingly-ubiquitous internet backend to websites as varied as Netflix and Ocado.
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Source: theguardian.com