Snow Family
Solution Architect Associate
- A set of secure appliances that provie petabyte-scale data collection and processing solution at the edge and migrate large-scale data into and out of AWS
- Used to be called Import/Export, where you could send in your own storage devices to AWS. This got too expensive to support by AWS as the types of devices being sent got crazy
- Physical devices that provide large scale data transportation. Streamlines bringing data into AWS by bypassing the internet in a common way via an appliance
- Supports importing to S3, or exporting from S3
- You load data into the appliance, send into AWS, they upload that data to your storage device using the high speed internal network
- Tamper resistent enclosures
- 256 bit encryption
- Once the data transfer has been performed, AWS performs a software erasure of the data on the appliance
- Various types of Snow Devices
- Snowcone
- Smallest device in the snow family
- Provides 8TB of storage, 4GB of memory and 2 vCPUs
- Designed to move small data loads into AWS
- Has direct IoT sensor integration
- Great where power and space are constrained
- Snowball Edge
- Supports 48-81 TB of data
- Also has compute capabilities built in.
- Supports varying amounts of CPU and RAM
- Think of this as a small AWS data center in a box you can bring into your data center.
- You can use Lambda on these
- Snowmobile
- Basically a giant sea container on a truck that can support 100 petabyte level data
- You can use about 10 of these to pull in 1 exobyte of data into AWS in around 6 months
- Snowcone