You have started a new role as a solutions architect for an architectural firm that designs large sky scrapers in
the Middle East. Your company hosts large volumes of data and has about 250Tb of data on internal servers.
They have decided to store this data on S3 due to the redundancy offered by it. The company currently has a
telecoms line of 2Mbps connecting their head office to the internet. What method should they use to import this
data on to S3 in the fastest manner possible.
A.
Upload it directly to S3
B.
Purchase and AWS Direct connect and transfer the data over that once it is installed.
C.
AWS Data pipeline
D.
AWS Import/Export
Isn’t Import/Export limited to 16TB?
Import/Export (aka Snowball)
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2015/10/aws-import-export-snowball/
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/snowball/latest/ug/limits.html
“AWS Import/Export allows for the importation of large data sets, using external hard disks which are sent directly to amazon, therefore bypassing the internet” – from “A Cloud Guru” course