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This guide is for the Snowball (50 TB or 80 TB of storage space). If you are looking for documentation for
the Snowball Edge, see the AWS Snowball Edge Developer Guide
(https://docs.aws.amazon.com/snowball/latest/developer-guide/whatisedge.html) .

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When you receive the Snowball appliance, you'll notice that it doesn't come in a box. The Snowball is its own
physically rugged shipping container. When the Snowball first arrives, inspect it for damage or obvious tampering. If
you notice anything that looks suspicious about the Snowball, don't connect it to your internal network. Instead,
contact AWS Support (https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/) and inform them of the issue so that a new
Snowball can be shipped to you.
Important
The Snowball is the property of AWS. Tampering with a Snowball is a violation of the AWS Acceptable Use Policy. For
more information, see http://aws.amazon.com/aup/ (http://aws.amazon.com/aup/) .

Before you connect the Snowball to your network and begin transferring data, it's important to cover a few basic
elements of your data transfer.

The Snowball – The following is what the Snowball will look like.

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Data source – This device holds the data that you want to transfer from your on-premises data center into
Amazon S3. It can be a single device, such as a hard drive or USB stick, or it can be separate sources of data within
your data center. The data source or sources must be mounted onto your workstation in order to transfer data
from them.

Workstation – This computer hosts your mounted data source. You'll use this workstation to transfer data to the
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