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.
Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) and Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) wrote a letter to the CEOs of all three companies to ask about the service’s pricing and its potential impacts.
The music streaming app tells Bloomberg that 25 percent of subscribers in the US, UK, and Canada are listening to audiobooks — a sign subscribers are taking advantage of Spotify Premium’s free 15 hours of audiobook content.
Spotify also tells Bloomberg that purchases for additional audiobook listening hours have “more than doubled” since the end of last year.
We’ve written a lot about why the price of streaming services has gone up, but this video from our friends at Vox breaks it all down.
