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

Claim 13:
14. One or more non-transitory computer-accessible storage media storing program instructions that when executed on or across one or more computing devices of a network of a client site cause the one or more computing devices to implement a data transfer tool to:
identify data stored on one or more storage devices of the client site 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 a 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, wherein the plurality of shippable storage devices are attached to the network of the client site.