Data is a cornerstone of successful application deployments, analytics workflows, and machine learning innovations. When moving data to the cloud, you need to understand where you are moving it for different use cases, the types data you are moving, and the network resources available among other considerations. AWS offers a wide variety of services and partner tools to help you migrate your data sets, whether they are files, databases, machine images, block volumes or even tape backups.

AWS Cloud Data Migration Services

The suite of data transfer services created by AWS includes many methods that help you migrate your data more effectively. You can think about them in two categories:

Online data transfer and hybrid cloud storage

These methods make it simple to create a network link to your VPC, transfer data to AWS, or use S3 for hybrid cloud storage with your existing on-premises applications. These services can help you both lift and shift large datasets once, as well as help you integrate existing process flows like backup and recovery or continuous data streams directly with cloud storage.

Offline data migration to Amazon S3

One should never underestimate the bandwidth of a semi truck filled with 100 Petabytes of hard drives, or a 100 TB suitcase-sized device. These offline data migration services that use shippable, ruggedized devices are ideal for moving large archives, data lakes, or in situations where bandwidth and data volumes cannot pass over your networks within your desired time frame.