A county GIS team must migrate a multi-petabyte historical imagery library to Amazon S3, but the municipal WAN cannot finish the transfer within the project window. Which approach should the architects select?
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Short Explanation
When the pipe is a garden hose and the data is a swimming pool, you don't wait for drip irrigation. Snowball and friends truck the imagery offline into S3 when the WAN simply cannot win.
Full Explanation
Snow Family addresses bulk migration when network transfer is impractical due to volume or limited WAN. For multi-petabyte historical imagery, offline appliance-based ingest into S3 is the appropriate Task 4.2 data-transfer choice. Overnight VPN streaming, email archives, and informal USB courier lack scale, security, and operational controls.