> However, customers with exabyte-scale on-premises storage look at the 80 TB, do the math, and realize that an all-out data migration would still require lots of devices and some headache-inducing logistics.
Lots of devices certainly. But headache-inducing logistics? I think getting snowballs via Fedex/DHL, copying them and sending them back is easier than figuring out how to connect the truck to your in-house datacentre. Most won't have a spare 1Tbit/s connection in the parking lot.
If you're looking to transfer 100s of petabytes, I imagine you'd find a way to get a 1Tbps connection to the parking lot, rather than connect and disconnect thousands of Snowballs. It's clearly intended for a different use case than transferring a few petabytes.
