Summary
In this chapter, we talked about various aspects of data management, including data governance and compliance with the legal requirements of federal and regional authorities of the country where the data resides. We also discussed that in order to build HPC applications on the cloud, we need to have data on the cloud, and looked at the challenges of transferring this data to the cloud. In order to mitigate these challenges, we can use the managed AWS data transfer services, and in order to select which service to use for your application, we then discussed the elements of building a data strategy.
We then took an example of how we can transfer petabyte-scale data to the cloud in order to understand the concepts involved in a data transfer strategy. Finally, we did a deep dive on various AWS data transfer services for both online and offline data transfer based on your network bandwidth, connectivity, type of application, speed of data transfer, and location of your data...