You have a local data center on-premise that stores archived files. The total amount of the files is about 70TB. The data needs to be transferred to Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). After the data transfer is finished, the local data center will not be used. Which solution is the most appropriate?

Answer options:

A.AWS Direct Connect.
B.AWS Snowball.
C.Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration.
D.AWS Global Accelerator.

Correct Answer – B
AWS Snowball has 80TB and 50TB models. The 80TB model is suitable to transfer 70TB of data to AWS. Please refer to https://docs.aws.amazon.com/snowball/latest/ug/whatissnowball.html.
Option A is incorrect: Because Direct Connect establishes a network connection from on-premises to an AWS Region. It is not suitable to move 70TB of data.
Option B is CORRECT: Because AWS Snowball is a data transport solution that accelerates moving terabytes to petabytes of data to AWS.
Option C is incorrect: S3 Transfer Acceleration uses Amazon CloudFront’s globally distributed edge locations. It does not help in this scenario.
Option D is incorrect: Because AWS Global Accelerator improves availability and performance for applications, which does not help on the data transfer.