I don't think I've ever handled so much data I'd need to increase data throughput.
How much are we talking? Like petabytes? (Do you just stroll in with on a huge disk array?)
How much are we talking? Like petabytes? (Do you just stroll in with on a huge disk array?)
In the past, at some companies I was at, I could see using something like this once a quarter to upload full quarterly backups, depending on the price per hour.
We used a snowball a couple of times to either move data from S3 to or it.
In some cases its because we didn't have enough local storage to shuffle the data, or because we only had a 100 meg net link and a couple of TBs to move.
I've got a good connection for the UK but still about a 100 meg upload. I have external drives that are 4TB, so if everything goes perfectly that could take about two full days to upload.
N.B. I'm not contradicting the parent, but reframing the concept - it seems that the Data Transfer Terminal is ALREADY in AWS so ingress isn't a thing since your data is ALREADY in AWS as soon as you connect the optic fiber cable to whatever storage you've brought onsite. But since you're only renting the connection, your data can't stay forever in AWS unless you copy to S3 or somewhere else in AWS.