Overview
- Snowball
- Petabyte scale data transport solution. Uses secure appliances to transfer large amounts of data into and out of AWS
- Could be 1/5th the cost of using internet to transfer
- Tamper resistant
- Encryption
- Full chain of custody
- Performs software erasure of the snowball appliance
- 1gbps - use snowball for 60TB or more data storage size
- Can import to S3
- Can export from S3
- Snowball Edge is 100TB - has onboard storage and compute capabilities. e.g. can run lambda functions
- Support local workloads in remote or offline locations
- Like having a mini AWS at your disposal
- Can cluster today to form a local storage tier
- Snowmobile
- Exabyte scale data transfer service used to move extremely large amounts of data to AWS
- 100PB per snowmobile
- Shipping container size on a trailer being moved by a truck
- Snowball Lab
- Can submit snowball jobs
- Shows job created, appliance preparation, shipment etc. and then tracks sending the appliance back
- Handle to open the panel on both sides
- Doesnt come with its own power lead. Uses 3 pin kettle shape, need your own
- Can use RJ45, optical etc. cables to do the transfer