Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced that its data transfer terminal offering has become available online.
The mentioned information is contained in a message published on the specified company’s blog last Sunday, December 1. Terminals provide a physical location where users can bring storage devices for faster upload of information materials to the AWS cloud.
The first terminals are based in New York and Los Angeles. AWS also plans to add new locations around the world. Users can reserve a time slot to visit their nearest location and upload data to the company’s public endpoints, including Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) or Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS).
In a post published on the blog of the firm, it was noted that using the AWS Data Transfer Terminal allows the consumer to significantly reduce the time of ingesting data with high throughput connectivity in the nearby location.
As part of the mentioned functional solution, users can upload large datasets from fleets of vehicles operating and collecting data in metro areas for training machine learning models, digital audio and video files from content creators for media processing workloads, and mapping or imagery data from local government organizations for geographic analysis.
Also, on Monday, December 2, the company announced that automaker Lotus had chosen it as the preferred cloud service provider. Moreover, AWS and Orbital Materials teamed up to develop new data center decarbonization and efficiency technologies. Oracle Database@AWS is now available in a limited preview.
As we have reported earlier, AWS Projects Cloud & AI to Contribute $12T to Global GDP.
