AWS Data Transfer Terminal: Safe, physical sites for speedy data migration to AWS.
Why Data Transfer Terminal?
Data Transfer Terminal lets you transfer data to Amazon S3, EFS, and other AWS endpoints utilizing a high-throughput connection. It also offers a safe, upload-ready physical location for you to bring your storage devices.
Advantages
Move your data from a safe physical place to the AWS cloud quickly.
Upload information quickly
To transfer your data quickly to different AWS endpoints, such as Amazon S3, Amazon EFS, and others, use a dedicated internet connection.
Use on demand
Take your storage devices, schedule a time slot at the closest data transfer terminal, and upload data to AWS using a high-bandwidth connection.
Faster time to results
As contrast to days or weeks utilizing conventional techniques like shipping devices, process and evaluate ingested data in a matter of minutes. Immediate quality checks are made possible by this quick access to data, which is essential for applications that are time-sensitive and mission-critical.
Secure upload access
Throughout the procedure, maintain control over your devices and know that your data is secure.
Use cases
Learn how Data Transfer Terminal may assist your company in safely and swiftly moving data to the cloud.
Streamline procedures for media production and distribution
Effectively move high-resolution audio and video files across sites without specialized high-throughput connectivity, allowing production and editing teams who are spread out globally to collaborate easily during post-production.
Quick processing of automobile data
To speed up the development of autonomous driving and advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), upload vast amounts of sensor data from test fleets of automobiles. expedite the processing and analysis of various driving situations, improving AI models for improved car performance and safety.
Transfer data produced or gathered in faraway areas effectively
Wherever data is generated or gathered, data transfer terminals are accessible. This facilitates the quicker transfer of Internet of Things (IoT) data from distant places to assist use cases in research and development, industry, or agriculture.
Move legacy data
To guarantee compliance and simple data management, securely upload old data. For data security, keep the device in custody during the migration.
Features of the AWS Data Transfer Terminal
On-demand booking
The straightforward and user-friendly AWS console interface, which was created with non-technical operators in mind, makes it simple to reserve and manage a session for an AWS Data Transfer Terminal service.
The Data Transfer Terminal console allows you to confirm your reservation after scheduling an upload window for the desired location, date, time, and length. During the reservation process, you may determine who is permitted entry to the area. Each authorized person will receive information on where and how to access the Data Transfer Terminal facility when the reservation has been verified.
High-throughput AWS connection
Large data uploads to the AWS cloud may be accomplished quickly with the help of the AWS Data Transfer Terminal. You can move enormous volumes of data in a fraction of the time with fast upload rates as opposed to more conventional techniques. Your data-driven projects and apps may reach the market more quickly with to with expedited data intake method, which drastically cuts upload times from hours or days to just minutes.
New physical AWS Data Transfer Terminals speed up cloud uploads
You can upload to the cloud more quickly using the new physical AWS Data Transfer Terminals.
The AWS Data Transfer Terminal, a safe physical facility where you may bring your storage devices and transfer data to the AWS Cloud more quickly, is now generally available.
With plans to open more facilities worldwide, the initial Data Transfer Terminals are situated in New York and Los Angeles. You may schedule a time to come to your closest location and use a high throughput connection to quickly and securely upload data to any AWS public endpoint, including Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), and others.
With high throughput connectivity in your area, you may drastically cut down on the amount of time it takes to ingest data by using AWS Data Transfer Terminal. You can upload digital audio and video files from content creators for media processing workloads, mapping or imagery data from local government organizations for geographic analysis, and sizable datasets from fleets of vehicles operating and gathering data in metropolitan areas for training machine learning (ML) models.
You may utilize the full range of AWS services to make the most of your data and spur innovation once it has been transferred to the cloud. Instead of depending on conventional shipping methods, you may instead transport your AWS Snowball devices to the place for upload and keep the device for future usage.
How to begin using the AWS Data Transfer Terminal
The AWS Management Console allows you to reserve the time and date of your visit and determine whether a location is available. After that, you may go to the place, connect your storage device to the S3 bucket, start the data transfer, and confirm that the transfer is finished.
Select “Get started” after navigating to the AWS Data Transfer Terminal interface.
Select “Create Transfer Team” and create a team by entering a name, description, and terms and conditions of service agreement. In the team configuration, you may add team members for individual or group reservations.
Select Create Reservation to book your time and place.
Select your team, a process owner to oversee your reservation, and team members to go to the site for the data transfer task as the first stage. You may now select the Data Transfer Terminal facility’s location and the time you would want to attend. You will be charged on an hourly basis for the time you have reserved.
After checking the reservation details, select Next and Create to confirm your reservation.
You may view your forthcoming bookings on the team page once your reservation has been requested. You have the option to cancel your reservation or check its status.
Visit the site and verify access with the building reception on the day and time you have scheduled. Building personnel take you to the Data Transfer Terminal site and show you to your assigned room.
If there are no AWS signs in the room or building, don’t be shocked. This is to ensure that your workplace remains as hidden as possible for security reasons.
A personal computer, fiber optic cable, and patch panel are all in the room. To free up more room on the desk table, the patch panel is mounted inside a wall mount rack or little floor rack. You may observe how to remotely access the server while transferring data using a personal computer.
Now available
With plans to open more sites worldwide, AWS Data Transfer Terminal is now accessible in New York and Los Angeles.
Each site will have an hourly fee for on-demand use. If you upload data to AWS Regions on the same continent as where you are, there won’t be a fee per gigabyte for the data transfer. Go to the Data Transfer Terminal price page to find out more.
Try using the AWS Management Console’s AWS Data Transfer Terminal.
