AWS Snowball Flashcards

1
Q

What are the three snowball products?

A
  • Snowball
  • Snowball edge
  • Snowball mobile
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2
Q

I am migrating a database from on-prem to AWS, there is 20 TB of data, how best to transport this amount of data?

A
  • Snowball 20 TB
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3
Q

What are the two sizes of snowball you cna have?

A
  • 50TB

- 80 TB

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4
Q

I need to transport 240TB of data to S3 from on-prem, what is my best option?

A

One snowball is not big enough as they are a max size of 80TB, but you can change snowballs together to get you 240TB

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5
Q

How do you order a snowball?

A

You order it through the console.

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6
Q

What storage volume should you use the snowball

A

10TB

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7
Q

What is encrypted with reference to snowball?

A
  • Data at rest.

- Data in transit, to and from the snowball.

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8
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How does snowball handle the key for encryption?

A

It uses KMS for key management.

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9
Q

Can you use your own keys with a snowball?

A

Yes, KMS is used.

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10
Q

I have to migrate 20PB of data, what snowball should I be using?

A

Snowball mobile is good for extremely large data like 10PB or more.

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11
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What is the max size of the snowball mobile?

A

100PB

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12
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What is a snowball edge?

A

It is like a snowball but has computed like EC2 and Lambda, Greengrass.

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13
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What snowball has to compute?

A

Snowball edge has computed in the form of EC2 and Lambda and storage up to 100TB

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14
Q

What is the max size of snowball edge?

A

It can be a max of 100TB

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15
Q

On what snowball can I run Greengrass?

A

Snowball edge

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16
Q

I have a remote location where I have data stored and i need to perform a local transformation and special proprietary encryption of the data before I store it on the snowball, what snowball is mist suitable, data size is 80TB?

A

Snowball edge has the ability to run compute and you can perform functions on the data before storing on the snowball.

17
Q

What types of snowball edges si there?

A
  • Snowball edge storage optimized (100TB)
  • Snowball edge compute-optimized
  • Snowball edge GPU.