List of commercial data transfer solution that utilize DTN for large data transfer:

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1. Amazon S3 (Amazon Simple Storage Service)

URL: https://aws.amazon.com/s3

Amazon S3 or Amazon Simple Storage Service is a platform offered by AWS that provides object storage through a web service interface. Amazon S3 uses the same scalable storage infrastructure that Amazon.com uses to run its global e-commerce network. Amazon S3 transfer acceleration is a combination of network and protocol based data transfer services that utilize public cloud storage resources (S3 bucket) available inside AWS storage service.


2. Globus Online

URL: https://www.globus.org/

The Globus Online is file transfer service, that works on SaaS (Software as a Service) principle. It allows users to move data between two GridFTP servers (like two storages) or between a GridFTP server and a user’s machine (Windows, Mac or Linux). Globus Online automates the activity of managing file transfers: monitoring performance, retrying failed transfers, recovering from faults automatically whenever possible, and reporting status.


3. Microsoft Azure Blob Storage

URL: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/blobs/

Blob storage service allows users of Microsoft Azure to store large amounts of unstructured object data (binary or text data) that does not have a pre-defined data model or is not organized in a pre-defined manner, that serve data to the users via HTTP and HTTPS protocol. Microsoft's use cases include serving streaming video, files, text and images to remote users. Azure allows users also to store blobs in containers.


4. Google Cloud Platform - GCP

URL: https://cloud.google.com/

GCP is a suite of cloud computing services that is provided by Google on the same infrastructure as internal one (Youtube, search...). It provides a series of modular cloud services (90 products) including computing, data storage, networking, big data, IoT and machine learning. Google Cloud Platform is a part of Google Cloud, which includes the Google Cloud Platform public cloud infrastructure, as well as G Suite, enterprise versions of Android and Chrome OS, and application programming interfaces (APIs) for machine learning and enterprise mapping services.


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