AWS Offline Data Transfer
AWS Tutorial: Offline Data Transfer (AWS Snow Family)
Welcome to the Offline Data Transfer lesson. What if you need to migrate 10 Petabytes of data, but your corporate office has terrible internet speeds? Even with DataSync, it would take years.
Why Learn Offline Data Transfer?
When bandwidth is low or data sizes are astronomically high, the fastest way to move data is physically shipping hard drives. Understanding the AWS Snow Family solves extreme migration bottlenecks.
Tutorial Overview
In this tutorial, you will learn about the AWS Snow Family:
- AWS Snowcone
- AWS Snowball Edge
- AWS Snowmobile
The AWS Snow Family
The AWS Snow Family consists of highly secure, physical devices that AWS ships directly to your office. You plug them into your servers, load your data, and mail them back to the AWS data center, where AWS uploads the data into Amazon S3 for you!
- AWS Snowcone: A small, rugged, and secure edge computing and data transfer device. It holds 8 Terabytes of data and is small enough to fit in a backpack or be mounted on a drone.
- AWS Snowball Edge: A massive, rugged suitcase-sized device that holds up to 80 Terabytes of data. It is the standard choice for large-scale data migrations.
- AWS Snowmobile: An actual 45-foot long shipping container pulled by a semi-truck. It is used to move massive amounts of data (up to 100 Petabytes per truck) for mega-corporations.
Exercise
?If your company needs to move 50 Terabytes of data to AWS but has a very slow internet connection, which device should you request?