One of the general unwritten principles of cloud computing and even general web hosting is that data is to be sent electronically through FTP, SFTP, HTTP, or any number of other methods. But this principle is unwritten for a reason. When it comes to humongous amounts of data, it is a principle that is best left to theory, even on a faster Internet connection.

Amazon’s solutions to this mass data transport problem has always been their Import/Export service. Essentially, a customer can ship data to their Amazon server through traditional mail service. The only problem was, until recently, the shipping was one-way. While it was called Import/Export, they only had the import half of it completed.

On their Friday blog post, Amazon Web Services announced that they now offer exporting of data from S3. You simply send them an email manifest and a storage device. They export the data to your device and send it back to you through the postal service for the price of $80 per storage device and $2.49 per hour. The service is currently only available in the US with European service expected in the future.

Source: The Register
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