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PROFESSIONAL-CLOUD-ARCHITECT · Question #360
You are launching a data fabric service on Google Cloud in ten weeks and need to transfer 2 petabytes of historical data from your on-premises data center to Google Cloud. You want to securely transfe
The correct answer is B. Request Transfer Appliances from Google Cloud. Transfer the data using the appliances.. Transfer Appliance is designed for secure, large-scale offline migrations when you need to move petabytes of data within a fixed timeline. It avoids network bandwidth constraints and provides a controlled, secure transfer process suitable for 2 PB within ten weeks.
Submitted by luis.pe· Mar 30, 2026Managing and provisioning cloud solution infrastructure
Question
You are launching a data fabric service on Google Cloud in ten weeks and need to transfer 2 petabytes of historical data from your on-premises data center to Google Cloud. You want to securely transfer the data with low latency. What should you do?
Options
- ACreate a 1 Gbps VPN connection between your data center and Google Cloud. Use Storage
- BRequest Transfer Appliances from Google Cloud. Transfer the data using the appliances.
- CCreate a 1 Gbps connection using direct interconnect. Use the Storage Transfer Service for on-
- DExport the data to portable disks and send the disks to Google Cloud for data import.
How the community answered
(42 responses)- A2% (1)
- B95% (40)
- D2% (1)
Explanation
Transfer Appliance is designed for secure, large-scale offline migrations when you need to move petabytes of data within a fixed timeline. It avoids network bandwidth constraints and provides a controlled, secure transfer process suitable for 2 PB within ten weeks.
Topics
#Transfer Appliance#large-scale data migration#on-premises to cloud#Storage Transfer Service
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