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(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Cloud infrastructure provider Amazon Web Services (aws.amazon.com) has launched the limited beta of AWS Import/Export, which accelerates large data transfers by letting customers ship their physical storage devices to and from AWS using "snail mail."
According to AWS's Wednesday announcement, AWS lets users transfer data directly onto and off of storage devices, bypassing the Internet, accelerating the migration of significant data sets to the cloud. For instance, even on a T1 connection it would take more than 80 days to upload just 1TB of data. AWS also notes that Import/Export is more cost effective than upgrading connectivity.
AWS said the Import/Export functionality is especially useful for data migration, off-site backup, direct data interchange, and disaster recovery.
Amazon Web Services developer evangelist Jeff Barr notes in the company blog that hard drives are growing quicker than Internet connections are getting faster. "It is now relatively easy to create a collection of data so large that it cannot be uploaded to off-site storage (e.g. Amazon S3) in a reasonable amount of time. Media files, corporate backups, data collected from scientific experiments, and potential AWS Public Data Sets are now at this point. Our customers in the scientific space routinely create terabyte data sets from individual experiments," Barr wrote.
Currently in beta, AWS Import/Export supports importing data into Amazon S3 buckets in the US only, however, export and EU support will be added in the coming months.
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October 2009 - Web Hosting's All Star Team
This has been, for us, one of the most interesting, exciting and challenging build-ups to an issue of the magazine yet, Web Hosting's All Star Team. The balloting process was our first experiment with a kind of user participation we're planning to do a lot more with in the months to come. We had thousands of ballots submitted, with hundreds of write-in suggestions and a demonstration of user engagement that has us feeling super positive about the project.
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July 2009 - What am I Worth?
One of the interesting luxuries of working on a project like the printed WHIR magazine is that it allows us to play with things like our point of view from one issue to the next. In recent months we've been giving added attention to the kind of practical and applicable advice aimed at smaller hosts and resellers. This issue carries on with that point of view, asking, in our cover story, "what am I worth?" It's a complicated question without a clear-cut answer.
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May 2009 - The Blueprint for a Small Web Host
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Comment by Andy K on Friday, May 22, 2009
We are so glad Amazon made initial data transfer even simpler. No longer you have to wait weeks before you initial backup completes. Hopefully this will make the tools like CloudBerry Backup for S3 even more appealing.