send in the clouds
So a lot of your data is stored in the cloud saving you thousands of euro, but you need to audit your data locally or have it archived to the vaults for safe keeping but it will take weeks to download and the broadband is not the greatest speed and prone to disconnect at 2am. What is required is a courier service to send you back YOUR data when YOU want it.
Those clever folk at Amazon have a service to do just that.
AWS Import/Export accelerates moving large amounts of data into and out of AWS using portable storage devices for transport. AWS transfers your data directly onto and off of storage devices using Amazon’s high-speed internal network and bypassing the Internet. For significant data sets, AWS Import/Export is often faster than Internet transfer and more cost effective than upgrading your connectivity.
The beta currently supports importing and exporting data into and out of Amazon S3 buckets in the US. Support for EU buckets will be added in the coming months.
so if you need to retrieve over 1TB of data and you are on broadband it will take more that 82 days to download, it will ship quicker in Europe and the service isn’t even launched here yet!