It happened to me : transferring huge data files using TCP/IP based protocols is a pain when latency is noticeable. This is a problem that becomes more and more visible when you have computers or applications on different Clouds.

Asperasoft is well known for their FASP product: a Layer 7 protocol for fast and reliable file transfer that found its habitat in the video industry.

Borrowing from their experience, the guys at Aspera released an AWS appliance that implements a full FASP endpoint with the unique feature to write either on block devices or directly on S3 (Amazon’s distributed storage). Click on the picture on the right to see an enlarged view.