Snow Family
Overview
Transfers large amounts of data into and out of AWS cloud using secure appliances.
Transferring data with Snowball is simple, fast, secure, and can be as little as 1/5 the cost of high-speed Internet.
Use cases
Addresses high network costs, long transfer times (more than 1 week), and security concerns
-> use Snowball.
Snowball edge
Snowball edge is a autonomous computing device with ability to run EC2 instances and Lambda.
The Storage Optimized option provides up to 100 TB of storage (80 TB really usable), 24 vCPUs, and 1 TB SSD for pre-processing and large scale data transfer.
New option available with 210 TB SSD
The Compute Optimized option provides up to 52 (now 104) vCPUs, an optional GPU, 7.68 TB SSD, and 42 TB of storage for running advanced machine learning workloads in environments with limited or no network connectivity.
Snowball Edge is suitable for:
Import data into Amazon S3
Export from Amazon S3
Durable local storage
Local compute with AWS Lambda
Local compute instances
Use in a cluster of devices
Use with AWS Greengrass (IoT)
Transfer files through NFS with a GUI
Snowmobile
Snowmobile: 100PB
The file interface exposes a Network File System (NFS) mount point for each bucket on your AWS Snowball Edge device. You can mount the file share from your NFS client using standard Linux, Microsoft Windows, or macOS commands. You can use standard file operations to access the file share.
We recommend that you use only one method at a time of reading and writing data to each bucket on a Snowball Edge device. Using both the file interface and the Amazon S3 adapter on the same bucket might result in undefined behavior.
Amazon S3 adapter, use to transfer data programmatically to and from the AWS Snowball Edge device using Amazon S3 REST API actions. This Amazon S3 REST API support is limited to a subset of actions.
Best practices
If it tooks more than 1 week to transfer over the Internet -> consider Snowball
Trivia
Terabytes, low costs, limited time = AWS snowball devices.
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