intermediate~1.5h
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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