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AWS Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C02)

DataSync

  • Move large amounts of data from your on-premises NAS or file system via NFS or SMB protocol to AWS over the public internet using TLS
  • Can synchronize to:
    • S3 (all storage classes)
    • EFS
    • FSx for Windows
  • Scheduled Replication (not continuous)
  • Need to install AWS DataSync Agent on premises
  • Diagram
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  • Can also be used to transfer between two EFS in different regions
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  • Suitable in automating and accelerating online data transfers to a variety of AWS storage services (over Storage Gateway which only works with S3)

Perfect to move large amounts of historical data from on-premises to S3 Glacier Deep Archive (directly).

Last updated: 2022-05-21