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AWS Import/Export accelerates transferring large amounts of data between the AWS cloud and portable storage devices that you mail to us. AWS Import/Export transfers data directly onto and off of your storage devices using Amazon’s high-speed internal network. For large data sets, AWS Import/Export is significantly faster than Internet transfer and more cost effective than upgrading your connectivity.
This is the AWS Import/Export Developer Guide. This section describes who should read this guide, how the guide is organized, and other resources related to this service.
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud and Amazon Simple Storage Service are sometimes referred to in this guide as Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3, respectively. All copyrights and legal protections still apply.
For a description of what's new in this release of the AWS Import/Export service, see What's New.
This guide is for developers who want to use AWS Import/Export to transfer terabytes of data from a data storage device to Amazon Web Services (AWS). This guide assumes that you are already an Amazon S3 user.
Developers should be familiar with the following:
Familiarity with Amazon S3.
For more information, go to Amazon Simple Storage Service Developer Guide. In particular, you should understand the basic concepts of Amazon S3, including bucket, object, key, and Amazon S3's basic functionality, including importing, exporting, and deleting data.
YAML Ain’t Markup Language.
For more information, go to http://yaml.org.
To use AWS Import/Export, you must have an AWS account and be signed up to use both AWS Import/Export and Amazon S3. For more information, see Getting Set Up.
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This guide is organized into several major sections described in the following table.
| Information | Relevant Sections |
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What's new in this release | |
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AWS Import/Export concepts | |
| Customer device power requirements, connector types and file formats. | Storage Device Requirements |
| How to import data into the AWS cloud | Creating an Import Job |
| How to export data from the AWS cloud onto your storage device | Creating an Export Job |
| Shipping your device to AWS | Shipping Your Storage Device |
| Getting status, canceling, and looking at log files for your jobs | Managing Your Jobs |
| Example manifest, signature, and log files | Examples |
In addition, there is a glossary, an overview of our typographical conventions, and an index. Each section is written to stand on its own, so you should be able to look up the information you need and go back to work. However, you can also read through the major sections sequentially to get in-depth knowledge about AWS Import/Export.
The following table lists related resources that you'll find useful as you work with this service.
| Resource | Description |
|---|---|
| AWS Import/Export Technical Reference | Presents frequently asked questions and answers about AWS Import/Export. |
| FAQ | The FAQ covers the top questions developers have asked about this product. |
| Release Notes | The release notes give a high-level overview of the current release. They specifically note any new features, corrections, and known issues. |
| Amazon Simple Storage Service Developer and Amazon Simple Storage Service Getting Started Guide | Provides a detailed discussion of Amazon S3, including the basics of getting started, an overview of the service, a programming reference, and an API reference. |
| Amazon ElasticCompute Cloud Developer Guide | Provides a detailed discussion of Amazon EC2, which is a distributed computing platform. |
| Amazon Elastic MapReduce documentation | Amazon Elastic MapReduce uses Hadoop to process large amounts of data. |
| AWS Developer Resource Center | A central starting point to find documentation, code samples, release notes, and other information to help you build innovative applications with AWS. |
| Amazon S3 Discussion Forum | A community-based forum for developers to discuss technical questions related to Amazon S3 and AWS Import/Export. |
| AWS Support Center | The home page for AWS Technical Support, including access to our Developer Forums, Technical FAQs, Service Status page, and Premium Support. |
| Product information | The primary web page for information about AWS Import/Export. |
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A central contact point for inquiries concerning AWS billing, account, events, abuse etc.. | |
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Detailed information about the copyright and trademark usage at Amazon.com and other topics. |
