Data Migration/transfer Options

Question 1

Data transfer services overview

Answer 1

AWS Direct Connect is a dedicated physical connection to accelerate network transfers between your datacenters and AWS datacenters. This dedicated connection can be partitioned into multiple virtual interfaces. Partitioning enables you to use the same connection to access public resources such as objects stored in Amazon S3 using public IP address space, and private resources such as Amazon EC2 instances running within a VPC using private IP space, while maintaining network separation between the public and private environments. 1Gbps and 10Gbps ports are available. You can order lines with transfer speeds of 50Mbps, 100Mbps, 200Mbps, 300Mbps, 400Mbps, and 500Mbps. Direct Connect works with both IPsec VPN using public VIF and AWS Transit Gateway with transit VIF if you need to connect to multiple VPCs.

AWS S3 Transfer Acceleration makes public Internet transfers to Amazon S3 faster by taking advantage of Amazon CloudFront’s globally distributed edge locations. There is no guarantee that you’ll experience better transfer speeds, so if you need consistent, fast transfers, use other options. If you need a low cost option in speeding up transfers whenever acceleration is available, this will do.

AWS Data Sync is a data transfer service that automates moving data between on-premises storage and Amazon S3, Amazon EFS, or Amazon FSx for Windows File Server. You can use DataSync to copy data over AWS Direct Connect or Internet links to AWS for data migrations, recurring data processing workflows, and automated replication for data protection and recovery.

AWS Snow Family, which includes Snowball Edge, Snowmobile, and the fairly new Snowcone, are hardware devices that you can provision to move data into and out of Amazon S3. If you need quick large scale data transfers ranging from terabytes to exabytes, these are often your best option for data migration. Snowball Edge and Snowcone can also be used for local storage and compute workloads.

Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose is the easiest way to load streaming data into AWS. It can capture and automatically load streaming data into Amazon S3 and Amazon Redshift, enabling near real-time analytics. It is also fully managed. Additionally, it can batch, compress, and encrypt the data before loading it to AWS.

Question 2

Direct connect

Answer 2

One gigabit per second and 10 Gb per second ports are available

Lines with transfer speeds of 50 Mb per second 100 Mb per second 200 Mb per second 300 Mb per second 400 Mb per second and 500 Mb per second

If you need to connect to multiple VPCs, direct connect, works with both IPsec VPN using public VIF and AWS transit gateway with transit VIF

Question 3

S3 Transfer acceleration.

Answer 3

Uses cloudfront’s globally distributed, edge locations

Use this if you need a low-cost option in speeding up transfers whenever acceleration is available

Question 4

AWS Data sync

Answer 4

A data transfer service that automate moving data between on-premise storage and S3, EFS, or FSX for windows file server

Question 5

AWS. Snow family.

Answer 5

Snowball edge, snowmobile, snowcone

Useless if you need Quick, large scale, data, transfers, ranging from terabytes to exabytes

Snowball edge and snowcone can also be used for local storage and compute work loads

Question 6

Kinesis data firehose

Answer 6

Load streaming data into AWS

S3, and redshift

Enables real time analytics