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Data Sync: Overcoming Challenges of Large-Scale Data Transfers
Overview of AWS Data Sync
- Data Sync is a service designed to help customers move their data quickly, securely, and reliably.
- It addresses common challenges with large-scale data transfers, such as security, data verification, error recovery, and performance.
- Key use cases include data migrations, data replication/archiving, and supporting AI/ML workflows.
Deep Dive into Data Sync
- Data Sync supports copying data from a variety of locations: on-premises, other clouds, and within AWS.
- It preserves metadata and translates between different storage types (e.g., object store to file system).
- Deployment involves a Data Sync agent that communicates with the service in AWS over public, FIPS, or VPC endpoints.
- The network path involves three legs: agent to on-premises storage, agent to AWS service, and AWS service to target AWS storage.
Setting up and Using Data Sync
- Deploy Data Sync agents (on-premises or in EC2).
- Create "locations" to define storage connections.
- Create "tasks" to copy data from source to destination, with various options for data verification, scheduling, and reporting.
Scaling Data Sync
- Customers with high network bandwidth can deploy multiple agents and partition the source data.
- For datasets with many small files, using multiple agents per task can increase throughput.
Resilience's Use Case
- Resilience is a biomanufacturing company using the "Foundry" model to provide rapid process design and manufacturing capabilities to clients.
- They built a data management platform using Data Sync to:
- Automatically ingest data from 300+ lab instruments across 11 sites.
- Provide a centralized, secure, and versioned data storage in AWS.
- Enable self-service data access and analysis for research teams.
New Data Sync Features
- Detailed task reports for auditing and chain of custody.
- Manifest-based transfers to optimize for unchanging datasets.
- Enhanced Mode tasks to overcome scalability limits and improve performance.
Conclusion
- Key takeaways: Data Sync can help with large-scale data migrations, replication, and AI/ML workflows.
- Additional resources: AWS website, chalk talks, AWS storage solutions.
