SAA-C03 Q610 · Migration

Question

A company wants to migrate hundreds of gigabytes of unstructured data from an on-premises location to an Amazon S3 bucket. The company has a 100-Mbps internet connection on premises. The company needs to encrypt the data in transit to the S3 bucket. The company will store new data directly in Amazon S3. Which solution will meet this requirement?

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**AWS DataSync** is the ideal solution for this scenario. Here's how it satisfies every requirement:

1. **Hundreds of GBs of unstructured data**: DataSync is purpose-built for migrating large volumes of data from on-premises to AWS storage services including Amazon S3. Hundreds of GBs is well within its sweet spot.

2. **100-Mbps internet connection**: DataSync works over the internet and can fully utilize available bandwidth. At 100 Mbps, hundreds of GBs can be transferred in hours to a couple of days — no need for offline transfer devices. DataSync includes built-in bandwidth throttling and optimization.

3. **Encryption in transit**: DataSync **encrypts all data in transit by default using TLS**. No additional configuration is needed to meet this requirement.

4. **Simplicity & purpose

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