How crappy is the current state of broadband ? Amazon Web Services ’ newImport / Export data deliverymoves files using the postal service because broadband is too tiresome .
To move a metrical crapload of data , you dilute it on asupported storage gimmick — preferably with an eSATA interface — ship it to Amazon , and they upload it directly to Amazon Web Services . It might seem crazy , but study that moving one terabyte of data over a 10Mbps broadband connector , which is woefully fairly speedy in the US , would take over 13 days . Even a 100Mbps connection would take a couple of days to ram at through in good conditions . So when it comes to declamatory amounts of information , Fedex is profligate than fiber .
It ’s not a novel idea — sneakernetshave been around forever to move large files — but it ’s interesting come from Amazon , whose S3 cloud service power a ton of websites . And kind of sober up . [ Amazon , AmazonviaGigaom ]
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