A media company must move several hundred terabytes of archive footage into Azure. Its internet link would take months to carry that, and the footage cannot be recreated if it is lost. What do you recommend?
Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900), objective architecture-and-services. Azure architecture and services hard
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Correct Order an Azure Data Box, copy the footage onto the appliance on site, and ship it to Microsoft
Correct. Data Box is offline bulk transfer on a ruggedised, encrypted appliance, and it is the right answer whenever the network is the bottleneck rather than the tooling.
Not correct Run AzCopy with more parallel threads
Wrong. Parallelism helps you saturate a link; it cannot make the link wider. The constraint here is total bandwidth measured against months, not tool efficiency.
Not correct Use Azure Migrate
Wrong tool. Migrate discovers, assesses and migrates servers, databases and web applications. This is a bulk data transfer, not a server migration.
Not correct Drag the folders across in Azure Storage Explorer
Wrong. Same link, same months, now with a graphical tool and a person babysitting it — and Storage Explorer uses the same copy engine underneath in any case.
Why
Do the arithmetic before choosing a tool: volume divided by usable bandwidth. When the answer is measured in weeks, the correct answer stops being a copy utility and becomes a lorry. The Data Box family scales with the job — a small disk-sized device up to appliances holding hundreds of terabytes — the data is encrypted on the device, and the same service works in the other direction when you need bulk data out of Azure.
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