Amazon's New Service Goes Postal over Slow Broadband
GigaOM, May 21, 2009
By Stacey Higginbotham
Insufficient bandwidth has the potential to limit the cloud because it can take a long time to send large files over thin pipes. Amazon Web Services now addresses this problem with a new data delivery service which uses the postal system rather than the Internet to deliver data. It means customers now have the option to send their data to Amazon’s cloud via the mail.
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