07 - Migration and Transfer Flashcards
AWS Snowball, Snowball Edge, & Snowmobile CheatSheet
1) ) Snowball and Snowball Edge is a rugged container which contains a storage device
2) Snowmobile is a 45-foot long ruggedised shipping container, pulled by a semi-trailer truck
3) Snowball and Snowball Edge is for peta-scale migration. Snowmobile is for exabyte-scale migration
4) Snowball comes in 2 sizes: 50 TB (42 TB usable), 80 TB (72 TB usable)
5) Snowball Edge comes in 2 sizes: 100 TB (83 TB), 100 TB Clustered (45 TB per node)
6) Snowmobile comes in one size: 100 PB
7) You can both export or import data using Snowball or Snowmobile
8) You can import into S3 or Glacier
9) Snowball Edge can use in a cluster in groups of 5 to 10 devices
10) Snowball Edge provides 3 options for device configurations: Storage optimised (24 vCPUs), Compute Optimised (54 vCPUs), GPU optimised (54 vCPUs)
