AWS Snowball is a device you can rent from Amazon which allows users and companies to quickly migrate terabytes of data to S3,
With Snowball, you don’t need to write any code or purchase any hardware to transfer your data. Simply create a job in the AWS Management Console (“Console”) and a Snowball device will be automatically shipped to you. Once it arrives, attach the device to your local network, download and run the Snowball Client (“Client”) to establish a connection, and then use the Client to select the file directories that you want to transfer to the device. The Client will then encrypt and transfer the files to the device at high speed. Once the transfer is complete and the device is ready to be returned, the E Ink shipping label will automatically update and you can track the job status via Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), text messages, or directly in the Console.
The pricing is fairly reasonable. A 50TB Snowball will costs $200, while the 80TB version will cost $250.
Once the device is shipped back to Amazon, there are no data charges for transferring the data into S3 (though obviously storage charges, etc., begin to be incurred).
I wish there was a way to move the data directly from the AWS Snowball into Amazon S3’s cheaper Glacier or Glacier Deep Archive storage. Maybe someday.