The AWS Snow Family consists of devices designed for data transport to and from AWS.
These devices are physical in nature.
They have the capability to transfer data in quantities up to exabytes.
| One exabyte is equal to 1,000,000,000,000 megabytes. |
The AWS Snow Family includes three types of devices:
AWS Snowcone is a compact and secure device.
It is used for data transfer.
Specifications include 8 TB of storage space, 4 GB of memory, and 2 CPUs.
AWS Snowball comes in two types of devices, as outlined in the table below.
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Snowball Edge Storage Optimized devices |
Snowball Edge Compute Optimized devices |
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Great for large-scale data migrations |
Ideal for services that demand significant computing resources. |
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Have 80 TB of HDD storage space for object storage |
Offers 42 TB of HDD storage for object storage and 7.68 TB of NVMe SSD storage for AWS EBS block volumes. |
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Have 1 TB of SSD storage for block volumes |
Operates with 208 GiB of memory and 52 vCPUs. |
AWS Snowmobile transfers massive amounts of data to AWS, with a capacity of up to 100 petabytes.