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)

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

Microsoft has clearly observed utility of similar AWS appliance:
Batch Cloud Data Transfer Services - AWS Snowball Appliance

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)

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."

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