Migration

Question 1

What are the 3 types of physical data transfers for AWS migrations?

Answer 1

1. Snow cone
2. Snowball
3. SnowMobile

Question 2

What is the storage size for SnowCone? What special features does it have?

Answer 2

1. 8TB
2. It is small, and has IOT integration
3. Good where compute and space is limited

Question 3

What is storage size for Snowball? What special features does it have?

Answer 3

1. 50TB to 80 TB
2. Compute,GPU,Storage types
3. Good for offgrid or one time migrations to AWS

Question 4

What is Snowmobile?

Answer 4

1. 100PB

2. Truck for exbyte scale

Question 5

Can you transfer data out of AWS and shipped back to you using Snow?

Answer 5

Yes you can

Question 6

What is Storage Gateway?

Answer 6

A hybrid cloud storage, merging on-prem with cloud for ongoing or onetime needs

Question 7

What is File Gateway?

Answer 7

SMB/NFS based fileshare that backs up into S3.

Question 8

What are the 2 modes of File Gateway?

Answer 8

1. stored mode: Keep all files on the cloud

2. cached mode: Keep most recently used files cached on-prem with files backed up to S3

Question 9

What should your solution be if your users dont have enough on-prem file storage space?

Answer 9

Solution is to use File Gateway cached

Question 10

What is Storage Gateway when it is installed on-prem?

Answer 10

They are AWS provided VM’s running on the on-prem

Question 11

What is Volume Gateway?

Answer 11

iSCi based backup onprem VM’s disks to the cloud

Question 12

Where does Volume Gateway back up to? What can you do with that data after?

Answer 12

Stores into S3, where you can create EBS snapshots/volumes from the disks

Question 13

What are the 2 modes of Volume Gateawy?

Answer 13

1. stored mode

2. cached mode

Question 14

What is Tape gateway?

Answer 14

Replace physical tapes and stores into the cloud e.g. in Glacier

Question 15

What does Storage Gateway help with?

Answer 15

Helps migrate on-prem resources to the cloud or extend on-prem storage

Question 16

What is DataSync?

Answer 16

Agent based solution for migrating data from on-prem to the cloud for NFS/SMB fileshares

Question 17

When should you use DataSync?

Answer 17

When you want to do one time migrations of large chunks of data of fileshares

Question 18

What 3 target storage services does DataSync support?

Answer 18

EFS,Fsx, S3

Question 19

When should you use Storage Gateway over DataSync?

Answer 19

When you want ongoing sync to the cloud with a hybrid architecture vs. a one time migration lift and shift

Question 20

Will you have to install an agent for DataSync?

Answer 20

Yes you will need and agent on-prem

Question 21

What is AWS Transfer Family?

Answer 21

Services allowing transfer of file in and out of S3/EFS using FTP and SFTP, FTPS

Question 22

Does AWS Transfer Family support transfer over the public internet?

Answer 22

Only for Secure FTP. Regular FTP can only be done within the AWS environment

Question 23

When should you use AWS Transfer Family? How?

Answer 23

When you have a legacy application but need to have storage on S3/EFS, just swap out the DNS

Question 24

What are reasons to use AWS Snow?

Answer 24

1. Slow internet speeds
2. Secure transfer requirements to not go over public
3. DIrect Connect is costly and takes time to setup, not just for a one time migration