It’s very common for US-based studios to outsource big chunks of their animation projects overseas where production costs are significantly cheaper. Less common, though, are things like CNN’s report about production sketches from Amazon’s Invincible series and Max’s Iyanu: Child of Wonder show somehow winding up on a computer server located in North Korea.
The company first rolled the semi-truck on-stage during a cloud computing event in 2016. It’s designed to get companies’ data into the cloud by transporting a 45-foot-long trailer full of hard drives to an Amazon data center.
But now, CNBC reports that Amazon has stopped offering Snowmobile’s service. A spokesperson tells CNBC that Amazon has “faster and easier” ways to transfer data to AWS.
None other than The Washington Post is holding Amazon to account for missing the mark on jobs produced at HQ2.
The company was supposed to add 2,500 new jobs at the site last year, but dropped 200 existing positions instead.
Amazon risks losing tax incentives, but insists its goal of creating 25,000 jobs by the end of this decade remains on track.
[The Washington Post]
This Vault-Tech number appeared in episode six of Prime Video’s Fallout adaption — and you can call it or text it for a nice little Easter egg.
