Amazon Web Services has expanded a shipping service for large data sets on its S3 cloud storage platform so customers can get their content back instead of just sending it.
The AWS Import/Export service, announced in May, lets customers use standard shipping services to send Amazon chunks of data that would take days or weeks to get there on typical leased lines. For example, enterprises with a T-1 line (1.5Mb per second) typically can avoid an 82-day upload by sending 1TB of data via AWS Import/Export, according to Amazon. Customers are already uploading terabytes of data every week, the company said.
Amazon launched the service with just "import" capability, which allowed customers to send data to AWS on disks and other storage media. Now AWS can also export data back to customers, according to a posting on the AWS blog Thursday. All customers need to do is prepare a shipping manifest file and e-mail it to Amazon, receive a job identifier in return, and send a storage device that's been prepared with a signature file. Amazon will load the data residing at S3 onto that storage device and ship it back to the customer.
Prices are the same as for exporting data with the service: US$80 per device and $2.49 for each hour AWS spends copying data to the device, plus normal S3 storage charges. Customers can get prepared manifest files from Amazon by sending the e-mail command "create export plan" to Amazon and describing the block size and the capacity of the storage device.
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Source: pcworld.com
By: Stephen Lawson
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