Question

A media company is closing an on-premises data center in 90 days. They must migrate 600 TB of archived video assets to Amazon S3. The site has a single 500 Mbps internet link that is already 60% utilized by production traffic, and the company cannot upgrade the connection before the deadline. After the initial bulk migration, a smaller pool of about 2 TB of newly created files per week must continue to be transferred to S3 until the data center is fully decommissioned. Which approach meets the timeline while minimizing risk and impact on production traffic?

Accepted Answer

Order multiple AWS Snowball Edge devices to move the 600 TB bulk dataset, then deploy AWS DataSync for the ongoing incremental weekly transfers to S3.

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Use AWS DataSync over the existing internet link for both the 600 TB bulk transfer and the ongoing weekly transfers, scheduling tasks during off-peak hours.

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Establish an AWS Direct Connect link and use AWS DMS to migrate both the bulk archive and the ongoing incremental files to S3.

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Use S3 Transfer Acceleration with the AWS CLI multipart upload for the 600 TB bulk load and continue using it for weekly transfers.