- It is a physical data transport solution which helps moving terra bytes or peta bytes of data in our out of AWS
- Alternative to move data over network (in case of huge amount of data)
- It is secure, temper resistant, it uses KMS 256 bit encryption
- It has tracking using SNS and text messages. It has an E-ink shipping label
- Uses pay for data transfer jobs
- Use cases: large data cloud migrations, DC decommissions, disaster recovery
- If it takes more than a week to transfer over the network the data, it probably would be recommended to use a Snowball device
- Request a snowball device from AWS console for delivery
- Install the snowball client on the local server
- Connect the snowball device to the server and copy the files over using the client
- Shipt back the device when the all the necessary data is transferred to the device
- The data from the Snowball will be loaded into an S3 bucket
- Snowball is completely wiped
- Snowball Edge adds computational capability to the device
- It can have 100TB of capacity with either:
- 24 vCPU (Storage optimized)
- 52 vCPU & optional GPU (Compute optimized)
- Supports a custom EC2 AMI so it can perform processing on the go
- Supports custom Lambda functions
- It is useful for pre-processing data while it is moving
- Use cases: data migration, image collation, IoT capture, machine learning
- It is truck which can transfer exabytes of data
- Each Snowmobile has 100PT of data storage capacity
- Better than Snowball if more than 10PB of data should be transferred
- Snowball can not import data directly to Glacier
- We have to use Amazon S3 first, adn an S3 lifecycle policy