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[ Snowball ]

- Physical data transport solution that helps moving TBs or PBs of data in or out of AWS

- Alternative to moving data over the network (and paying network fees)

- Secure, tamper resistant, uses KMS 256 bit encryption

- Tracking using SNS and text messages, E-ink shipping label

- Pay per data transfer job

ex) large data cloud migrations, DC decommission, DR

     If it takes more than a week to transfer over the network, use Snowball devices

[ Snowball : process ]

1. Request snowball devices from the AWS console for delivery

2. Install the snowball client on your servers

3. Connect the snowball to your servers and copy files using the client

4. Ship back the device when you're done (goes to the right AWS facility)

5. Data will be loaded into an S3 bucket

6. Snowball is completely wiped

7. Tracking is done using SNS, text messages and the AWS console

[ Snowball Edge ]

- Snowball Edges add computational capability to the device

- 100TB capacity with either :

  1) Storage optimized - 24vCPU

  2) Compute optimized - 52 vCPU & optional GPU

- Supports a custom EC2 AMI so you can perform processing on the go

- Supports custom Lambda functions

- Very useful to pre-process the data while moving

ex) data migration, image collation, IoT capture machine learning

[ Snowmobile ]

- Transfer exabytes of data (1 EB = 1000 PB = 1000000 TBs)

- Each Snowmobile has 100 PB of capacity (use multiple in parallel)

- Better than Snowball if you transfer more than 10 PB

[ Snowball into Glacier ]

스노우볼 데이터를 Glacier 로 바로 옮길 수 없으며 S3에 올린 후 lifecycle 정책에 의해 Glacier 로 이동되게 해야함

- Snowball cannot import to Glacier directly

- You have to use Amazon S3 first, and an S3 lifecycle policy