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  "baiScore": 92,
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  "category": "Cloud Infrastructure Hardware",
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  "updatedAt": "2026-04-14T18:34:08.589+00:00",
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    "founded": "2015",
    "headquarters": "Seattle, WA",
    "pricing_model": "Usage-based (Per-job fee + daily fee + shipping)",
    "core_products": "AWS Snowcone, AWS Snowball Edge (Storage Optimized & Compute Optimized)",
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