Snowball Use Cases
- Often used for migrating a large number of files. Since it can take a lot of time to transfer a large number of files via the Internet, and with snowball this process is reduced significantly.
- Can be used to back up large amounts of data to Amazon S3 or Amazon Glacier. It provides a secure and offline backup solution to protect your data in the event of an accident or data loss.
- For archiving large amounts of data. By migrating your data to Amazon Glacier using Snowball, you can securely store your data in Glacier for long-term storage.
How To Migrate Data From S3 To Snowball Service?
A large amount needs to be transferred while transferring the data from S3 to Snoball by using a snowball device. The data which is present in the S3 can be transferred offline more securely and efficiently.
Snowball is used to transfer the data from the on-premise data center to the cloud data center and it is also offered by Amazon web services as a service that is transported physically. Snowball is specially designed to migrate data which in large amounts when you requested Snowball service AWS will send a shipping device to your location to migrate the data.
While transferring the data AWS assures that Snowball is designed more secure while transferring the data. It uses tamper-evident enclosures, employs encryption mechanisms, and integrates with the AWS Key Management Service (KMS) to protect your data.