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by oatmeal_croc 568 days ago
Judging by the locations (New York and LA) I wonder if this is to cater to folks from production houses who want to upload large video files for processing or backup.
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Or law firms with large discovery data sets
How big are they? I thought its the 100gb order of magnitude as (dead tree) libraries.
Hmm. A couple years ago I think one large firm I knew their aws instance had about 400tb I think. Constantly growing with new cases.

They had instances around the world this was just one.

It adds up quick. I know of a law firm (under a 100 employees) with over 20TB.
That's still peanuts, you can get consumer grade HDDs with that capacity in a single drive. A business grade line would have no trouble uploading all of that data in less than a week, even with a bunch of extenuating circumstances.
Some smaller businesses may have a huge data store, but not the money to pay for a business grade internet connection to upload it in a reasonable amount of time. I've worked for clients who have a 10 megabit full duplex fiber connection for over $1,000 a month (probably because of low ISP competition and because they were in a newly built, low density area). If they were working on migrating to the cloud, they would certainly consider taking a few hard drives one time to AWS rather than maxing their 10 MB full duplex connection for weeks or months.
> no trouble uploading all of that data in less than a week

When you're doing e-discovery, deadlines are often measured in days - not just for the upload time, but for the analysis and finding the needle in the haystack.

Also gotta think of what else is using the corporate internet pipe you can’t drown it in one aws upload for days.
I'd imagine with LLMs today, discovery work is probably done on the cloud by bots.