Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration
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Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration
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Re: Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration
#2TL;DR
Newer, larger "snowball" appliance (current = 50TB and newer 80TB version), as well as access in additional international regions.
Network optimized S3 uploads (faster inbound transfers) for an extra 4 cents/GB.
Sidenote: I'm curious if you can get the same speedup for inbound transfers by using a Cloudfront distribution in front of your S3 bucket for no additional charge (no cost for inbound transfer on either service).
Re: Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration
#3TL;DR Newer, larger "snowball" appliance (current = 50TB and newer 80TB version), as well as access in additional international regions. Network optimized S3 uploads (faster inbound transfers) for an extra 4 cents/GB. Sidenote: I'm curious if you can get the same speedup for inbound transfers by using a Cloudfront distribution in front of your S3 bucket for no additional charge (no cost for inbound transfer on either…
Even though their Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration Speed Comparison page [1] do test uploads only, this new feature is documented to accelerate downloads as well.
I guess optimized WAN network routing between S3 regions and their edge locations usually beats regular internet routing.
[1] http://s3-accelerate-speedtest.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com/e...
Re: Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration
#4What's the fastest & cheapest way to get data off Amazon's cloud services?
Re: Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration
#5Looks like they're using the Cloudfront infra to have files sent to s3 via cloudfront. Uploads to a cloudfront edge down the street will be a lot faster than the s3 datacenter.
Will this allow the HTTP sliding windows to be optimized more in any way? Any idea if this could approach UDT upload speeds for large files?
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#6What's the fastest & cheapest way to get data off Amazon's cloud services?
It depends entirely on the quantity of data.
For huge datasets, Snowball will be fastest & cheapest (literally shipping data).
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#7"What's a Snowball?"
Animated YouTube by Amazon explains: https://youtube.com/watch?v=9uc2DSZ1wL8
Re: Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration
#8I went to try it but don't see it as an option!
Re: Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration
#9TL;DR Newer, larger "snowball" appliance (current = 50TB and newer 80TB version), as well as access in additional international regions. Network optimized S3 uploads (faster inbound transfers) for an extra 4 cents/GB. Sidenote: I'm curious if you can get the same speedup for inbound transfers by using a Cloudfront distribution in front of your S3 bucket for no additional charge (no cost for inbound transfer on either…
Even though their Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration Speed Comparison page [1] do test uploads only, this new feature is documented to accelerate downloads as well. I guess optimized WAN network routing between S3 regions and their edge locations usually beats regular internet routing. [1] http://s3-accelerate-speedtest.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com/e...
I didn't mention that because it wasn't in the official blog post, but you're correct.
My assumption is that AWS has their own dedicated fiber/private connectivity between edges and regions.
Re: Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration
#10I went to try it but don't see it as an option!
It will be released by tomorrow.