Azure Data Box | Microsoft Azure
Announcing the preview for the Azure Data Box: Achievements will be unlocked | Blog | Microsoft Azure
- 256 bit AES encryption
- 100 TB, and uses NAS protocols (SMB/CIFS)
![](https://azurecomcdn.azureedge.net/mediahandler/acomblog/media/Default/blog/e82c2cf9-627c-4137-bae4-c88a5715fd77.png)
link from Azure Podcast: Episode 223 - Azure Storage Options
Case Study: Azure Data Box | Oceaneering Intl - YouTube
Confidently plan your cloud migration: Azure Migrate is now generally available! | Blog | Microsoft Azure
Microsoft’s new Data Box lets you mail up to 100 TB to its Azure cloud | TechCrunch
Azure Migrate—VM migration software | Microsoft Azure
Azure Migration Center—Cloud Migration Tools | Microsoft Azure
![](https://azurecomcdn.azureedge.net/cvt-a5889866117c01fa61dd01b69f212a5ef152c2ce92a75c2722b373c84478b55a/images/page/services/azure-migrate/demo/slide1-step1.jpg)
Microsoft has clearly observed utility of similar AWS appliance:
Batch Cloud Data Transfer Services - AWS Snowball Appliance
![](https://d1.awsstatic.com/Projects/data-storage-snowball/snowball1.8f5225471dd4e971aa5d48e0470686d44a97ef0f.png)
Azure Box currently does not offer "compute" services, and this is reasonable to expect next,
likely related to Azure Stack platform. It could be called "Azure Data Box Edge" :)
AWS Snowball Edge – Petabyte-Scale Data Transport with On-Board Storage and Compute
AWS Snowball Edge is a 100TB data transfer device with on-board storage and compute capabilities (Lambda functions)
![snowball-edge.319.319 snowball-edge.319.319](https://d1.awsstatic.com/product-marketing/Storage/Snowball%20Edge/snowball-edge.319.319.2c9b4c167a8a0d48caa9cd103d0bf9ebe69aab2e.png)
Microsoft opens up testing of Azure Data Box, its Amazon Snowball rival | ZDNet
Google antes up its own cloud migration appliance | ZDNet
Data Transfer Appliance | Offline Data Migration | Google Cloud
"Choose from 100TB or 480TB’s of raw capacity per appliance to move your data to Google Cloud quickly."
![](https://cloud.google.com/images/transfer-appliance/hero-rackable-servers.png)
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