Question

A media company is decommissioning its on-premises tape archive and must migrate 900 TB of historical video footage to AWS. The dataset is rarely accessed (a few retrievals per year, retrieval latency of several hours is acceptable), and the on-premises internet link is only 500 Mbps and heavily used by production traffic during business hours. Management wants the lowest total cost for both the transfer and long-term storage, and the migration must complete within 6 weeks. Which approach best meets these requirements?

Accepted Answer

Order AWS Snowball Edge devices to ship the data offline, then configure S3 Lifecycle rules to transition the imported objects to S3 Glacier Deep Archive.

Answer

Use AWS DataSync over the existing internet connection to transfer the data directly into S3 Glacier Deep Archive.

Answer

Deploy an S3 File Gateway on premises and copy the footage to an S3 Standard bucket, relying on Intelligent-Tiering to move cold data over time.

Answer

Provision an AWS Direct Connect 1 Gbps dedicated connection and use DataSync to copy the data into S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval.