Snowball

Feature

• snowball : import/export to s3(transfer) large amount of data
• snowball edge : snowball + compute(lambda)
• snowmobile : data center migration

Scenarios

• You are working for a large telecommunications company. They have a requirement to move 83 TB data warehouse to the cloud. It would take 2 months to transfer the data given their current bandwidth allocation.
  Which is the most cost-effective service that would allow you to quickly upload their data into AWS?
  • A) Amazon Snowball Edge
  • the storage capacity is different from the usable capacity
    • 80TB Snowball have 72TB usable capacity
    • 100TB Snowball have 83TB usable capacity
  • Snowball Edge device can transport data at speeds faster than the internet.
• A media company hosts large volumes of archive data that are about 250 TB in size on their internal servers. They have decided to move these data to S3 because of its durability and redundancy. The company currently has a 100 Mbps dedicated line connecting their head office to the Internet.
  Which of the following is the FASTEST way to import all these data to Amazon S3?
  • A) Order multiple AWS Snowball devices to upload the files to Amazon S3
  • Snowball usecase : high network costs, long transfer times, and security concerns. Transferring data with Snowball is simple, fast, secure, and can be as little as one-fifth the cost of high-speed Internet.