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Getting Data to the Cloud Faster with AWS Snowball Edge Devices

We recently completed a data analytics-style project that left us with a 100TB output file. While we do have ample storage throughout our lab, hanging onto a 100TB file in perpetuity has a unique set of challenges. Further, we don't really "need" the file, but we'd prefer to preserve it, if possible. The cloud is an obvious fit for this need, but the time to transfer that much data over the wire is immense, so we opted to give AWS Snowball Edge devices a try. The goal – to get our data from the lab in Cincinnati to an S3 bucket in AWS us-east-2 region as fast as possible. (more…)
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