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Re:Mail Your Hard Drive to Amazon by drivebyacct2 on Saturday July 09, 2011 @01:35AM (#2745103)
Not to be snarky in any regard, but what is a use case for needing to upload an enormous EBS image? Like for some sort of non-deterministic data processing where you already have a large set of data to process?
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Re:Mail Your Hard Drive to Amazon by statictype on Saturday July 09, 2011 @02:43AM (#2745182)
If you're switching your app's hosting over to EC2 and want to transfer your hundreds of gigs of database files, this may be the easiest way to do it.

Also, I suspect the exporting data (for keeping physical backups) may be the more common use case.

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