Question

A media company receives large video metadata files (each 2-5 GB) daily as flat files on an on-premises SMB file share. A data engineer must automate transferring these files to Amazon S3 each night, with encryption in transit, integrity verification, and the ability to schedule recurring transfers without writing custom scripts. Which AWS service best meets these requirements?

Accepted Answer

AWS DataSync with a scheduled task from the SMB location to an S3 bucket

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Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose delivery stream buffering the files to S3

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AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) with an ongoing CDC task to S3

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An AWS Lambda function triggered on a schedule to read the share and PUT objects to S3