# Large Data Migration

{% hint style="info" %}
This page was generated from content adapted from the [AWS Developer Guide](https://github.com/awsdocs/aws-snowball-developer-guide.git)
{% endhint %}

## Planning Your Large Transfer

* **Note**\
  For large data transfers, we recommend using the Amazon S3 adapter to transfer your data.
* **Note**\
  Metadata operations are performed for each file that's transferred. Regardless of a file's size, this overhead remains the same. Therefore, you get faster performance by compressing small files into a larger bundle, batching your files, or transferring larger individual files.


---

# Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation

If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question.

Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter:

```
GET https://awsnotes.dendron.so/migration-and-transfer/aws-snow-family/topics/large-data-migration.md?ask=<question>
```

The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language.
The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation.

Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.