Amazon Snowmobile service is a semi-truck with a giant hard drive

Last week, Amazon announced a new service for uploading large amounts of data to its Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud storage. Dubbed Snowmobile, it’s an actual 18-wheel semi-truck hauling a storage container filled with hard drives. See, it’s not meant for times when you need to back up your photo or video collection, but rather for an entire company’s data, …