At the re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, AWS announced a new service: physical locations where customers can upload their data into the cloud.
AWS announced Data Transfer Terminals at the re:Invent conference. Those are physical locations, for now only in Los Angeles and New York, where customers can plug in their hard drives to upload data.
How does it work?
Customers can reserve a time slot in the nearest location to upload data to AWS endpoints, such as Amazon S3 or Amazon EFS. Staff escorts the customer to the floor where the reserved room is located. That building is inconspicuous and not marked with AWS signs to keep the work location as discreet as possible, AWS reports in its blog post.
The big advantage of these terminals is the high upload speed. Amazon claims to achieve speeds of up to 400 Gbps through their high-throughput connection. That shortens the time to get your data into the cloud.
The service is charged per port hour, meaning per hour you served the ports in the building, even if you don’t upload data. If and when locations appear in Europe has not yet been communicated.