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AWS sent a Snowcone to space
At its re:Mars conference, Amazon today announced that it quietly sent one of its AWS Snowcone edge computing and storage devices into space on the Axiom mission to the International Space Station. For the most part, this was an off-the-shelf Snowcone, which AWS already built to be rugged enough to be shipped by UPS, though the company had to do months of testing to get it certified for this flight. “When you think about providing cloud computing to the edge, in remote, disconnected, rugged environments — after 35 years in the space industry — there is no more harsh, remote or rugged environment or unforgiving, quite frankly, than the space environment,” said Clint Crosier, the director of Aerospace and Satellite at AWS and a retired United States Air Force major general who helped oversee the foundation of the U.S. Space Force before he retired and then joined AWS last year.
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