Amazon Web Services Eliminates Huge Upload/Download Times With Import/Export

August 27, 2009

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As we all know, one issue with doing online backup is if you have a huge amount of data to upload or download, it can take a lonnnnnnnnng time to upload or download.

Amazon has a clever solution to take care of this problem for you. You can ship them a hard drive and have the data loaded into S3.

How it works is that you put your data on a compatible storage device, then you email them. They’ll email you back with a unique identifier that you put on the device. Once you get that, you ship the device off to them. They’ll load the data and ship it back.

This makes a lot of sense if you are someone who has a ton of data to upload for the first time, has to do extremely large backups, or has a DR situation and can’t wait days and days to download your backup.

How Much Does It Cost?

Obviously this is not free. Amazon charges $80 per device, and $2.49 per data loading hour.

Because of this cost, you obviously have to have a certain amount of data to make it worth it. To that end, Amazon has an Import/Export Calculator to compare the cost of using the service vs. just uploading it.

If you had a large amount of data would you use this? Do you think other online backup providers are going to start offering this? (If they don’t already).

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Posted by Brooks | Filed Under Backup 

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One Response to “Amazon Web Services Eliminates Huge Upload/Download Times With Import/Export”

  1. Andy on August 30th, 2009 7:27 am

    Want to learn a new way to backup the data to S3? Try CloudBerry Backup. It is powered by Amazon S3 reliable and cost efficient storage. If you want to take part in beta sign up on the website http://cloudberrydrive.com What safer place to keep your files than Amazon's servers? We are planning to support AWS Import ./ Export in the future

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