Features of Snowball
AWS Snowball with the snowball device has the following features:-
- You don’t need to purchase or maintain your own hardware.
- Your data is secure both while it’s at rest and when it’s being physically moved.
- You can manage your jobs programmatically using the job management API or through the AWS Snow Family Management Console.
- The 50 TB model is accessible in all other AWS Regions; 80 TB and 50 TB variants are only available in US Regions.
- Local data transfers are possible between a Snowball and an on-premises data center. These transfers can be carried out using the standalone, downloadable Snowball client. Or you can use the free Amazon S3 Adapter for Snowball to transfer data programmatically using calls to the Amazon S3 REST API. See Data Transmission with a Snowball for further details.
- When the Snowball is prepared to ship, the E Ink display on its own shipping container switches to display your shipping label. See Shipping Factors for AWS Snowball for more details.
What is Snow Family in AWS?
Pre-requisites: AWS
In order to move massive volumes of data into and out of the cloud without relying on networks, Amazon has created the Snow Family of physical devices. This enables you to utilize your data with the vast array of Amazon analytics, file system, and archive services. Large-scale data transit and local storage are both well suited to it. For use cases like sophisticated machine learning and full motion video analysis in disconnected settings, Snowball Edge Compute Optimized devices offer 52 vCPUs, 42 terabytes of useable block or object storage, and an optional GPU. A tractor-trailer is used to transport an AWS Snowmobile shipping container. These services can help with initiatives including data migration, disaster recovery, shutting down data centers, and remote data collecting.