Google Cloud → AWS and Azure
AWS and Azure equivalents of Transfer Appliance
The closest AWS equivalents of Google Cloud Transfer Appliance are AWS Snowball Edge (Snow Family) and AWS Data Transfer Terminal; on Azure, Azure Data Box.
About Transfer Appliance
| Provider | Google Cloud |
|---|---|
| Status | Generally available |
| What it is | High-capacity storage device you load and ship to Google, which uploads the data to Cloud Storage. |
| Documentation | docs.cloud.google.com |
| Pricing | Official pricing page |
Mappings (1)
| Capability | AWS | Match (GCP vs AWS) | Azure |
|---|---|---|---|
| Offline bulk data transfer (ship or carry your data) | AWS Snowball Edge (Snow Family) Retired, AWS Data Transfer Terminal | Direct match | Azure Data Box |
Offline bulk data transfer (ship or carry your data) Direct match
AWS Snowball (retired) and Data Transfer Terminal map to Transfer Appliance, a high-capacity device you load and ship to Google for upload to Cloud Storage.
- Transfer Appliance is for data transfer only; it doesn't run edge compute like Snowball Edge did.