During the re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, AWS announced a new service: physical locations where customers can upload their data to the cloud.
AWS announced data transfer terminals at the re:Invent conference. These are physical locations, currently only in Los Angeles and New York, where customers can connect their hard drives to upload data.
How does it work?
Customers can reserve a time slot at the nearest location to upload data to AWS endpoints such as Amazon S3 or Amazon EFS. The staff will guide the customer to the floor where the reserved room is located. The building is inconspicuous and not marked with AWS signs in order to keep the workplace as discreet as possible, AWS reports in its blog post.
The big advantage of these terminals is the high upload speed. Amazon claims that its high-throughput connection can achieve speeds of up to 400 Gbit/s. This shortens the time it takes for your data to get to the cloud.
The service is billed per gate hour, i.e. per hour that you service the gates in the building, even if you do not upload any data. Whether and when locations will appear in Europe has not yet been communicated.