AWS - Snowball

Snowball

1. Before snowball, there was import/export disk accelerates moving large amount of data into and out of AWS through portable devices (like external HD, physically transporting them to AWS). This method created overhead of management of different portable devices.
2. Snowball in AWS console comes under migration.
3. We need to create a job/request/order Snowball.
4. Once hardware delivered to connect to Snowball we need to download client.
5. Once hardware setup is done, download credentials from Snowball dashboard.
6. We need credential to unlock and connect to Snowball
7. Snowball can import and export data to S3.
8. Introduced Snowball (Amazon created physical box) with below types
1. Snowball (standard) : is peta-byte scale data transport solution. Transfer your data to snowball then transport that to Amazon and Amazon will upload data to AWS. Amazon uses multiple layer of security in data transport. 80TB available on all region.
2. Snowball edge : 100TB storage capacity comes with on board compute capacity. Can be clustered as well.
3. Snowmobile : Massive container in a truck with 100peta-byte storage capacity