Patent ID: 11921870
Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A system, comprising:
one or more computing devices of a network of a client site;
one or more storage devices of the network of the client site;
a plurality of shippable storage devices, wherein the plurality of shippable storage devices are attached to the network of the client site; and
a data transfer tool implemented on at least one of the one or more computing devices of the client site, wherein the data transfer tool is configured to:
identify data stored on the one or more storage devices to be imported by a remote storage provider;
apply a redundancy encoding technique on the identified data to generate a plurality of shards; and
transfer different shards of the plurality of shards to different ones of the plurality of shippable storage devices prior to shipment of the plurality of shippable storage devices for import of the identified data by the remote storage provider.