Snowball

Snowball

• Snowball is a physical device used for transporting many terabytes or petabytes of data into and out of AWS

• Makes large scale of data transfer fast, easy and secure

• Comes in tamper-resistant enclosure

• Uses 256-bit encryption

• It's region specific, not for transporting data from one region to another

When to use Snowball

• When you have many TB or PB of data to upload

• You don't want to make expensive upgrades to your network for a one-off data transfer

• If you frequently experience data backlog

  If you're in a physically isolated environment, high-bandwidth internet is not available or is cost-prohibitive

• If it takes more than a week to upload your data

Snowball Edge

• Each Snowball Edge is a 100TB device, which also features onboard compute power which can be clustered to act as a single storage and compute pool.

• Designed to undertake local processing / edge computing, as well as data transfer.

• S3 compatible endpoint, supports NFS, and can also run Lambda functions as data is copied to the device.

• S3 buckets and Lambda functions come pre-configured on the device.