AWS Snowball is a service that uses physical storage devices to transfer large amounts of data to and from AWS faster than internet speeds. Customers can transfer 300-400 TB of data to AWS by shipping a hard drive rather than relying on the internet, which avoids issues like slow speeds, long transfer times, and security concerns. Snowball devices come in 80TB and 50TB models and use encryption to securely transfer data.
AWS Snowball is a service that uses physical storage devices to transfer large amounts of data to and from AWS faster than internet speeds. Customers can transfer 300-400 TB of data to AWS by shipping a hard drive rather than relying on the internet, which avoids issues like slow speeds, long transfer times, and security concerns. Snowball devices come in 80TB and 50TB models and use encryption to securely transfer data.
AWS Snowball is a service that uses physical storage devices to transfer large amounts of data to and from AWS faster than internet speeds. Customers can transfer 300-400 TB of data to AWS by shipping a hard drive rather than relying on the internet, which avoids issues like slow speeds, long transfer times, and security concerns. Snowball devices come in 80TB and 50TB models and use encryption to securely transfer data.
Consider a case that a organization have 300-400 TB data to send to
cloud storage for back up & archive purpose. The obstacles are
Dependency on Internet speed
Time required to transfer the data Security & Privacy Issues Compression/Decompression overhead
AWS has a solution for this limitation which is know as “SNOWBALL”.
As an alternative of sending the data using the internet, we can send
it to Amazon via an peripheral hard disk, and AWS would transfer the data directly onto and off of storage devices using Amazon's high-speed internal network and bypassing internet channels. AWS Snowball The AWS Snowball service uses physical storage devices to transfer large amounts of data between Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and your onsite data storage location at faster-than-internet speeds.
Snowball is intended for transferring large amounts of
data. If you want to transfer less than 10 TB of data between your on-premises data centers and Amazon S3, Snowball might not be your most economical choice.
You can understand AWS Snowball as Import/Export
Disk for the purpose of to/from data from Cloud. AWS Snowball Features of AWS “Snowball”:-
80 TB and 50 TB models are available in US Regions; 50
TB model available in all other AWS Regions. Enforced encryption protects your data at rest and in physical transit. There's no need to buy or maintain your own hardware devices. You can manage your jobs through the AWS Snow Family Management Console or programmatically with the job management API. AWS Snowball AWS Snowball AWS Snowball AWS Snowball AWS Snowball Snowmobile • It was announced in re: invent 2016. • A Snowmobile is an exabyte-scale data transfer service. • It can transfer large amounts of data in and out of AWS. • You can transfer 100 PB per Snowmobile, a 45-foot long ruggedized shipping container, pulled by a semi- trailer truck. • Snowmobile allows you to move massive volumes of data to the cloud, including video libraries, image repositories or even a complete migration of data center. • Transferring data with Snowmobile is secure, fast and cost-effective. AWS Snowball AWS Snowball Resources:-