AWS Snow Family
- Offline devices to perform data migration
- It's a physical device that is shipped by post
- Snow devices must be requested from AWS console
- To load data,
AWS OpsHub must be installed (optionally use CLI)
Family Jobs
- Import into Amazon S3
- Export from Amazon S3
- Local compute and storage only
Snow Devices
- Data migration
- Snowcone
- Snowball Edge
- Snowmobile
- Edge Computing: process data while being created
- Snowcone
- Snowball Edge
Snowcone
- Small portable computer (2.1kg)
- 8TB HDD, 2CPUs, 4 GB RAM
- Withstands harsh environments
- Can be sent offline or via network
Snowball Edge
Snowball Edge Storage Optimized- 80TB, 40 vCPUs, 80GB RAM
- Can run EC2 instances & aws functions with
IoT Greengrass
Snowball Edge Compute Optimized- 42TB, 52vCPUs, 208GB RAM,
optional GPU
- Can run EC2 instances & aws functions with
IoT Greengrass
Snowmobile
