AWS online data transfer services
Online data transfer services are out-of-the-box solutions built by AWS for transferring data between on-premises systems and the AWS cloud via the internet. They include the following services:
- AWS DataSync
- AWS Transfer Family
- Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration
- Amazon Kinesis
- AWS Snowcone
Let’s look at each of these services in detail to understand the scenarios in which we can use the relevant services.
AWS DataSync
AWS DataSync helps you overcome the challenges of transferring data from on-premises to AWS storage services and between AWS storage services in a fast and secure fashion. It also enables you to automate or schedule the data transfer to optimize your use of network bandwidth, which might be shared with other applications. You can monitor the data transfer task, add data integrity checks to make sure that the data transfer was successful, and validate that data was not corrupted during the transfer...
