This made me laugh. Not in the sad sort of way but in the yeah that makes
sense sort of way.

On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 8:38 AM, Robert Citek <[email protected]>wrote:

>
> Amazon has taken this quote to heart:  "Never underestimate the
> bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway."
>  --- Andrew S. Tanenbaum[1]
>
> Substitute FedEx for station wagon and drives for tapes, and you've
> got Amazon's new Import/Export service.  In brief, you dump your data
> onto a drive and send it to Amazon.  Amazon uploads the data to your
> AWS account and sends the drive back.[2]
>
> [1] http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Andrew_S._Tanenbaum
> [2] http://aws.amazon.com/importexport/#supported_devices
>
> Regards,
> - Robert
>
> >
>

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