AWS Snow Family

AWS Snow Family

1. The AWS Snow Family is a collection of physical devices that help to physically transport up to exabytes of data into and out of AWS.

2. AWS Snowcone

   • AWS Snowcone is a small, rugged, and secure edge computing and data transfer device. It features 2 CPUs, 4 GB of memory, and 8 TB of usable storage.

3. AWS Snowball

   • Snowball Edge Storage Optimized devices are well suited for large-scale data migrations and recurring transfer workflows, in addition to local computing with higher capacity needs.
   • Storage: 80 TB of hard disk drive (HDD) capacity for block volumes and Amazon S3 compatible object storage, and 1 TB of SATA solid state drive (SSD) for block volumes.
   • Compute: 40 vCPUs, and 80 GiB of memory to support Amazon EC2 sbe1 instances (equivalent to C5).
   • Snowball Edge Compute Optimized
     • provides powerful computing resources for use cases such as machine learning, full motion video analysis, analytics, and local computing stacks.
       • Storage: 42-TB usable HDD capacity for Amazon S3 compatible object storage or Amazon EBS compatible block volumes and 7.68 TB of usable NVMe SSD capacity for Amazon EBS compatible block volumes.
         • Compute: 52 vCPUs, 208 GiB of memory, and an optional NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPU. Devices run Amazon EC2 sbe-c and sbe-g instances, which are equivalent to C5, M5a, G3, and P3 instances.

4. AWS Snowmobile

   • AWS Snowmobile is an exabyte-scale data transfer service used to move large amounts of data to AWS.
     • You can transfer up to 100 petabytes of data per Snowmobile, a 45-foot long ruggedized shipping container, pulled by a semi trailer truck.