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Migration & Transfer

AWS DataSync

Fast online data transfer between on-prem, edge and AWS.

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Overview

DataSync moves files to/from NFS, SMB, HDFS, S3, EFS, FSx with built-in encryption and integrity checks.

When to use it

  • Large file migrations
  • Recurring sync from on-prem NAS to S3

Setup

  1. Deploy agent (on-prem VM) → create source/destination locations → create task → run.

How to use

Start
aws datasync start-task-execution --task-arn arn:aws:datasync:...:task/task-0123

QA use cases

  • Sync nightly anonymized fixtures from on-prem to S3 for QA consumption.