Google Transfer Appliance

You should use the Google Transfer Appliance when you need to move massive datasets, up to petabytes in size, to the Google Cloud Platform. It is ideal for situations where network bandwidth is limited or transferring over the internet would take too long.

Google ships a physical, high-capacity storage device directly to your data center. You copy your data onto the appliance locally, and then ship it back to Google for ingestion into the cloud.

No, it is a temporary migration tool designed specifically to facilitate offline data transfer. Once Google successfully ingests your data into the cloud, the appliance is securely wiped.

The appliance is designed to hold enormous volumes of data, scaling up to a petabyte. This makes it suitable for large enterprises looking to migrate extensive archives or databases to the cloud.