AWS and large data sets

May 21, 2009 | by Aaron

We’ve held back on going fully AWS as trying to get terabytes of data over to them would have been a colossal waste of time/money over a network connection. Today, Amazon web services announced they can receive USB 2/esata devices up to 8U high if you want to load up large data sets into their S3 service:

AWS Import/Export

We haven’t analyzed the pricing but it is one more nail into the “let’s shut the dev cage down and go all cloud” debate.

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