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Edit: as pointed out to me below, there actually is no ingress cost for standard S3 uploading. The $0.03/GB is monthly storage. So the cost of this service is $0.04/GB instead of $0.00.
"What's a Snowball?" Animated YouTube by Amazon explains: https://youtube.com/watch?v=9uc2DSZ1wL8
Even with that, I don't get it. "Moving lots of data either requires a huge pipe, or a ton of storage disks." With that, they offer their Snowball device, which, if I'm understanding correctly, holds up to 50TB (now 80TB), which they physically ship to you, and then you ship back to them. How does this fix either of the constraints (disk space / connection pipe)?
- how long did it take,
- how was latency/connectivity/etc,
- was it encrypted,
- how much did the hardware cost
- etc.
What'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).
Does anybody have a sense of how fast uploading to S3 can get? I'm on a gigabit link here in Singapore, uploading to Singapore instance of S3 (via ARQ) - and I'm disappointed that I rarely see better than about 40 Mbits/second.
"What's a Snowball?" Animated YouTube by Amazon explains: https://youtube.com/watch?v=9uc2DSZ1wL8
Even with that, I don't get it. "Moving lots of data either requires a huge pipe, or a ton of storage disks." With that, they offer their Snowball device, which, if I'm understanding correctly, holds up to 50TB (now 80TB), which they physically ship to you, and then you ship back to them. How does this fix either of the constraints (disk space / connection pipe)?
Anyone know if the quoted cost of $0.04/GB for Transfer Acceleration is instead of the $0.03/GB for standard S3 ingress, or in addition to it? Ie. is the final cost per GB $0.07 or $0.04 when using Transfer Acceleration? Edit: as pointed out to me below, there actually is no ingress cost for standard S3 uploading. The $0.03/GB is monthly storage. So the cost of this service is $0.04/GB instead of $0.00.
Anyone know if the quoted cost of $0.04/GB for Transfer Acceleration is instead of the $0.03/GB for standard S3 ingress, or in addition to it? Ie. is the final cost per GB $0.07 or $0.04 when using Transfer Acceleration? Edit: as pointed out to me below, there actually is no ingress cost for standard S3 uploading. The $0.03/GB is monthly storage. So the cost of this service is $0.04/GB instead of $0.00.
S3 ingress is free. You're thinking of storage pricing.
"What's a Snowball?" Animated YouTube by Amazon explains: https://youtube.com/watch?v=9uc2DSZ1wL8
Even with that, I don't get it. "Moving lots of data either requires a huge pipe, or a ton of storage disks." With that, they offer their Snowball device, which, if I'm understanding correctly, holds up to 50TB (now 80TB), which they physically ship to you, and then you ship back to them. How does this fix either of the constraints (disk space / connection pipe)?
If you can spare a 1 gigabit connection to saturate with S3 uploads, you can send 50TB in about two weeks. It takes about a week to request a Snowball, have it arrive, you fill it (takes about a day, assuming you have a 10Gbit connection for Snowball), you ship it back, they copy the contents to AWS storage. If you don't have a spare 1 gigabit connection, the speed is that much better. Even if you don't have 10Gbit hardware to fill Snowball with, a local, dedicated 1 gigabit connection to Snowball would be much more reliable.
Anyone know if the quoted cost of $0.04/GB for Transfer Acceleration is instead of the $0.03/GB for standard S3 ingress, or in addition to it? Ie. is the final cost per GB $0.07 or $0.04 when using Transfer Acceleration? Edit: as pointed out to me below, there actually is no ingress cost for standard S3 uploading. The $0.03/GB is monthly storage. So the cost of this service is $0.04/GB instead of $0.00.
> Anyone know if the quoted cost of $0.04/GB for Transfer Acceleration is instead of the $0.03/GB for standard S3 ingress, or in addition to it? Ie. is the final cost per GB $0.07 or $0.04 when using Transfer Acceleration? S3 ingress is free. You're thinking of storage pricing.