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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