AWS Import/Export vs Gretel

Gretel vs AWS Import/Export: What are the differences?

What is Gretel? Synthesize, transform and share large datasets easily. It gives you the first and only APIs to enable you to balance, anonymize, and share your data. With privacy guarantees.

What is AWS Import/Export? Transfer your data directly onto and off of storage devices using Amazon’s internal network and bypassing the Internet. Import/Export supports importing and exporting data into and out of Amazon S3 buckets. For significant data sets, AWS Import/Export is often faster than Internet transfer and more cost effective than upgrading your connectivity.

Gretel and AWS Import/Export can be primarily classified as "Data Transfer" tools.

Some of the features offered by Gretel are:

• Improve limited datasets with synthetic data
• Create synthetic data with privacy guarantees
• Power testing environments with anonymized data

On the other hand, AWS Import/Export provides the following key features:

• Data Migration – If you have data you need to upload into the AWS cloud for the first time, AWS Import/Export is often much faster than transferring that data via the Internet.
• Content Distribution – Send data to your customers on portable storage devices.
• Direct Data Interchange – If you regularly receive content on portable storage devices from your business associates, you can have them send it directly to AWS for import into Amazon S3 or Amazon EBS.