[nickb]

About 3 months ago, I needed >50Gb of data uploaded to AWS and I asked a friend of mine who works at Amazon for help. He asked around and told me to mail the external storage to Amazon with keys/bucket info and a special code. I UPSed the stuff and within 2 days of arrival, I received an email with a notification that the transfer was done. Later on, I got the storage back. Everything worked as advertised!

I guess there's so much demand for this sneakernet that they made an official service. I wonder how many other people asked for transfer help before today's announcement...

[dfranke]

If it was only three months ago, more likely this service was already in development and you were customer #1 without knowing it.

[3pt14159]

Unlikely. I have 2 contacts that did the same thing months ago. I actually thought that this was an already advertised service.