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21st May 2009 - Link Blog

AWS Import/Export: Ship Us That Disk! Andrew Tanenbaum said “Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway”, and now you can ship your storage device direct to Amazon and have them load the data in to an S3 bucket for you.

Posted 21st May 2009 at 11:22 am

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This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 21st May 2009.

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