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Evolution of Amazon's Data Transfer Solutions from Hardware to Snowmobile

Amazon has developed various ways to move large amounts of data into their cloud services, including tamper-proof shipping devices and semi-trucks full of data. These methods are necessary due to the significant amounts of data stored in modern times, which can take years to upload over the internet. Furthermore, once a company decides to use a specific vendor's cloud services, there is significant lock-in to that vendor, as illustrated by Amazon's 13-year migration from Oracle databases to AWS products.

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