# 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. --- # 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://notebook.iuriioapps.com/cloud/aws/storage/snowball.md?ask= ``` 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.