AWS Snowball

AWS Snowball

• Move large amounts of data IN and OUT of AWS

  • expensive to transfer via netowrk
  • too much data to be transmitted via network

• Physical storage => suitcase or truck

Snowball

• Ordered from AWS - log a job - device delevered (not instant)
• Data Encryption uses KMS - at rest
• 50TB or 80TB
• 1 GBps (RJ45 1GBas-TX) or 10 GBps (LR/SR) Network
• 10 TB <--> 10PB economical range (multiple devices)
• Multiple devices to multiple locations
• ONLY STORAGE DEVICE

Snowball Edge

• Both compute and storage
• Larger Capacity vs snowball
• 10 GBps, 10/25 (SFP), 45/50/100 (QSFP+)
• Storage Optimized - 80TB, 24 vCPU, 32 GiB RAM
  • withEC2 - 1TB SSD
• Compute Optimized - 100TB + NVME, 52vCPU and 208 GiB RAM
  • Compute Optimized - As above ... with a GPU
• Ideal for remote sites or where data processing on ingestion is needed

Snowmobile

• Portable DC wihtin a shipping container on a truck
• Special Order
• Ideal for single location when 10PB+ is required
• Up to 100PB per snowmobile
• Not economical for multi-site (unless huge) or sub 10PB