AWS Snow Family

AWS Snow Family

AWS Snow Family:

 Moves and processes petabytes of data at the
edge
 Its goal is:
 To create low-cost devices that move data offline
 To move user’s data to the cloud, they can rent a snow
device

 It integrates high security and ruggedization into

compute and storage devices
 Offers a variety of options, including optimization
for space or weight constraints, portability, and
flexible networking options
 Snow devices are rigorously tested in the most
extreme conditions
 AWS Snowcone

AWS Snowcone:
 Is a very portable edge computing and data transport device
 The most portable device of the snow family
 Is designed for use outside of conventional data centers
 Is ruggedized, secure, and reliable
 Data is gathered, processed, and either shipped to AWS for offline transfer or transferred using
AWS Data Sync
 Users can deploy a portable device nearly anywhere and get the computation, storage, and
network accessibility that they require
 AWS Snowball

AWS Snowball:
 Provides the possibility of quickly transferring terabytes of data to the cloud which has no storage
or processing power restrictions
 Expedites the transfer of data from offline or distant storage to the cloud
 Handles computing tasks with minimal to no connectivity and accelerates application
performance in remote, sterile edge locations
 Snowball’s ruggedized chassis, integrated organization, and tamper-evident box safeguard user’s
data while it is in transit and promptly deliver it to the intended location
 AWS Snowmobile

Snowmobile:
 Exabyte-scale data migration tools
 Is used to transport enormous volumes of data to AWS
 Is a semi-trailer truck towing the ruggedized 45-foot shipping container can move up to 100PB of
data
 Provides the transfer of the massive amounts of data, such as video libraries, image repositories, or
even a full data center migration to the cloud
 Offers more secure, quick, and economical data transfer

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