AWS Snowball

• Highly-secure, portable devices to collect and process dataat the edge, and migrate data into and out of AWS (Petabytes of data)
• move large amounts of data IN and OUT of AWS
• physical storage device in suitcase/ truck ordered from AWS (so it is offline!)

Snowball overcome these challenge:

• Lmiited connectivity/ bandwidth
• high network cost
• Shared bandwidth
• connection stability

Snowball

• only storage
• 10TB to 10PB economical range
• Data encryption uses KMS
• use 1 Gbps/ 10Gbps network

Snowball Edge

• both storage & compute optmized
• Type
  • storage optimized with EC2
  • compute optimized….with GPU
• data processing on ingestion is needed, can preprocess the data/ encoding…

Snowmobile

• special order for a truck (up to 100PB)
• when 10 PB+ is required