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AWS Migration Services: Snowball & Application Migration Service

Moving large datasets and entire servers into AWS — physical data transfer devices for the Snow Family when network transfer isn't practical, and lift-and-shift server migration with AWS Application Migration Service.

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🎓 Learning objectives

  • Explain when physically shipping a device (Snowball) beats transferring data over the network
  • Calculate roughly how long a given dataset would take to transfer over a given network link, to justify a Snowball decision
  • Describe how AWS Application Migration Service performs continuous replication for a near-zero-downtime cutover
  • Distinguish a lift-and-shift migration approach from a re-architecting migration approach

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