The company said the service was ideal for customers that need to move more than 10TB of data to the cloud. The Snowball service has a “usage charge of $200 per job” that excludes shipping. The offering is available initially in the US only for migrations into the US Standard and US West (Oregon) AWS regions. Australian availability is currently unknown. “It’s much more cost effective than what you otherwise might to do move that much data,” Jassy said at a press conference. AWS also took the wraps off ‘Inspector‘, an automated security assessment service, and the ‘Quicksight’ business intelligence tool. Cosies up with Accenture The cloud giant also today unveiled a new joint venture with Accenture, named the Accenture AWS Business Group. The group will offer “integrated consulting and technology solutions” for enterprises targeting a shift to the AWS cloud, according to Accenture. The unit has drawn dedicated staff from both parent companies “with expertise in cloud solutions architecture and development, marketing, sales, and business development”. Accenture chief strategy officer Omar Abbosh told the crowd at re:Invent that the new unit aims “to be the cloud sherpas for AWS”, and has an immediate aim to train 1000 staff from the consulting firm and certify 500 staff on AWS within the first year. The venture will focus on two strands of work initially. ‘Transformation services’ concentrates on moving existing enterprise applications to the AWS cloud, while ‘analytics and big data services’ will see AWS’ analytics functionality added to the Accenture insights platform. “The business group will also explore the creation of new services in high growth areas such as Internet of Things (IoT) and security on the AWS cloud,” Accenture said. Accenture had revenues of US$31 billion for the year ending 31 August and has had a relationship with AWS for almost 10 years. Tony Yoo travelled to AWS re:Invent as a guest of Amazon Web Services.