Security News > 2021 > January > Amazon Has Trucks Filled with Hard Drives and an Armed Guard
We say, "Well, let's take a look at what you're doing right now and see if we can offer a comparable level of security." So they tell us about the setup of their data centers.
We say, "Oh my! It seems like we have level five security and your data center has level three security. Are you really comfortable staying where you are?" The customer figures, not only am I going to save money by going with AWS, I also just became aware that I'm not nearly as secure as I thought.
If you have a ton of data in your data center and you want to move it to AWS but you don't want to send it over the internet, we'll send an eighteen-wheeler to you filled with hard drives, plug it into your data center with a fiber optic cable, and then drive it across the country to us after loading it up with your data.
Customers rightly expect that if they load a truck with all their data, they want security for that truck.
If a customer looks at that option, they say, yeah, of course I want the giant truck and the guy with a gun to move my data, not some crappy system that I develop on my own.
Lots more about how AWS views security, and Keith Alexander's position on Amazon's board of directors, in the interview.