Question

A media company needs to migrate 400 TB of archived video footage from an on-premises data center to Amazon S3. The site has a 100 Mbps internet connection that is also used for daily business operations and cannot be upgraded. The migration must complete within a few weeks. Which approach best meets these requirements?

Accepted Answer

Order an AWS Snowball Edge Storage Optimized device, copy the data locally, and ship it back to AWS for import into Amazon S3.

Answer

Use AWS DataSync over the existing internet connection to transfer the data directly to Amazon S3.

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Set up an AWS Site-to-Site VPN and use S3 multipart uploads to move the archive in parallel.

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Deploy AWS Storage Gateway in file mode to gradually cache and upload the footage to Amazon S3 over the internet.