AWS Data Transfer

This is part of a blog series giving a high level overview of the different services examined on the AWS Solution Architect Associate exam, to view the whole series click here.

Data Sync

• Data transfer service for moving large amounts of data into AWS.

• Typically use it at an on-premise data center but can also be used to move data between AWS storage services.

• Automates, simplifies and accelerates the movement of data

• Has built in security capabilities e.g. encryption in transit

• You would install AWS Data Sync Agent on a server that connects you to a file system — it then copies data and writes to AWS.

• Can connect with S3, EFS or FSX

Snowball

• Physical device used for petabyte-scale data transport that can securely transfer large amounts of data in and out of AWS

• Addresses a lot of the common challenges that typically comes with with large-scale data transfers, including high network costs, long transfer times, and security concerns.

• Is very secure — has multiple layers of security, is tamper resistant and once the transfer is complete everything is completely wiped from the snowball device.

• Comes in two sizes; 50TB & 80TB

Snowball Edge

• Is a 100TB data transfer device.

• Snowball Edge has both storage and compute capabilities.

• It supports specific Amazon EC2 instance types and AWS Lambda functions.

• Secure as data is encrypted at rest and in transit.

• Can be used as a temporary storage tier for large local datasets or support local workloads in remote offline locations.

SnowMobile

• Is a 45 foot long container pulled by a truck that is an exabyte-scale data transfer service for moving extremely large amounts of data to AWS

• Can transfer 100PB per snowmobile

• Can be used for complete datacenter migrations and can import to S3

• Fast, secure and cost effective