AWS Snow Family
- Highly secure, portable devices to collect and process data at the edge, and migrate data into and out of AWS
- Data migration: Snowcone, Snowball Edge, Snowmobile
- Edge computing: Snowcone, Snowball Edge
Data Migration
Snowcone & Snowcone SSD
- Small, portable computing, anywhere, rugged & secure, withstands harsh environments
- Light (2.1kg) device used for edge computing, storage, and data transfer
- Snowcone - 8 TB of HDD
- Snowcone SSD - 14TB of SSD
- Use Snowcone where Snowball does not fit (space-constrained environment)
- Must provide battery/cables
- Can be sent to AWS offline, or connected to the internet to use AWS DataSync to send data
Snowball Edge
- Physical data transport solution to move TBs or PBs of data in or out of AWS
- Alternative to moving data over the network
- Pay per data transfer job
- Provide block storage and S3-compatible object storage
- Snowball Edge Storage Optimized
- Snowball Edge Compute Optimized
- 42 TB of HDD or 28TB NVMe
Snowmobile
- Transfer EBs of data
- Each Snowmobile has 100 PB of capacity
- High security: temperature controlled, GPS, 24/7 video surveillance
Edge Computing
Snowcone & Snowcone SSD
- 2 CPUs, 4 GB of memory, wired or wireless access
- USB-C power using a cable or battery
- Can run EC2 & Lambda (using AWS IoT Greengrass)
Snowball Edge
- Snowball Edge Compute Optimized
- 10 vCPUs, 416 GiB of RAM
- Optional GPU
- 28 TB NVMe or 42 TB HDD
- Storage Clustering available (up to 16 nodes)
- Snowball Edge Storage Optimized
- Up to 40 vCPUs, 80 GiB of RAM, 80 TB storage
- Can run EC2 & Lambda (using AWS IoT Greengrass)
AWS OpsHub
- A software to manage Snow Family Devices
- Unlocking and configuring single or clustered devices
- Transferring files
- Launching and managing instances running on Snow Family Devices
- Monitor device metrics (storage capacity, active instances on devices)
- Launch compatible AWS services on devices
Solution Architecture
Snowball into Glacier
- Snowball cannot import to Glacier directly
- Import to S3 first, then use S3 lifecycle policy to move into Glacier
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