Question

A media company operates a remote field research station in a desert with no reliable internet connectivity and only intermittent satellite uplinks that offer roughly 5 Mbps. Field teams generate about 6 TB of high-resolution imagery per week that must eventually land in Amazon S3. The station has no rack space, no data center power redundancy, and needs a rugged, portable device small enough for a technician to carry in a backpack. The team wants to periodically ship collected data back to AWS while continuing to run lightweight edge processing (thumbnail generation) on-site. Which approach best fits these constraints?

Accepted Answer

Deploy an AWS Snowcone device at the station to run edge compute for thumbnail generation and periodically ship it back to AWS for data import into S3.

Answer

Install AWS DataSync agent on a local server and transfer the 6 TB per week over the satellite uplink to S3.

Answer

Order an AWS Snowball Edge Storage Optimized device and keep it permanently racked at the station for continuous replication.

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Use AWS Storage Gateway in file mode over the satellite link to cache and asynchronously upload imagery to S3.