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AWS Snowball

Updated Jul 26, 2020 ·
NOTES

This is not an exhaustive documentation of all the existing AWS Services. These are summarized notes that I used for the AWS Certifications.

To see the complete documentation, please go to: AWS documentation

Overview​

Designed to move large amounts of data IN and OUT of AWS. Physical storage the size of a suitcase or truck. Ordered from AWS, use, then return.

Snowball​

  • Any data on Snowball uses KMS at rest encryption.
  • 1 Gbps or 10 Gbps connection
    • 50TB or 80TB Capacity.
    • 10TB to 10PB of data is economical range.
  • Good for multiple locations
  • No compute

Snowball Edge​

  • Includes both storage and compute
  • Larger capacity vs snowball.
  • Faster networking over Snowball
    • 10 Gbps or up to 100 Gbps

Types of Snowball Edge​

  • Storage optimized

    • 80TB storage, 24 vCPU, 32 GiB RAM
    • (with EC2) includes 1TB SSD

  • Compute optimized

    • 100TB storage, 7.68 GB NVME (fast PCI bus storage),52 vCPU, 208 GiB RAM

  • Compute with GPU

    • Same as compute, but with GPU

Snowmobile​

Portable data center within a shipping container on a truck. This is a special order and is not available in high volume. Ideal for single location where 10 PB+ is required. Max is 100 PB per snowmobile.