AWS Snowball Flashcards
What are the three snowball products?
- Snowball
- Snowball edge
- Snowball mobile
I am migrating a database from on-prem to AWS, there is 20 TB of data, how best to transport this amount of data?
- Snowball 20 TB
What are the two sizes of snowball you cna have?
- 50TB
- 80 TB
I need to transport 240TB of data to S3 from on-prem, what is my best option?
One snowball is not big enough as they are a max size of 80TB, but you can change snowballs together to get you 240TB
How do you order a snowball?
You order it through the console.
What storage volume should you use the snowball
10TB
What is encrypted with reference to snowball?
- Data at rest.
- Data in transit, to and from the snowball.
How does snowball handle the key for encryption?
It uses KMS for key management.
Can you use your own keys with a snowball?
Yes, KMS is used.
I have to migrate 20PB of data, what snowball should I be using?
Snowball mobile is good for extremely large data like 10PB or more.
What is the max size of the snowball mobile?
100PB
What is a snowball edge?
It is like a snowball but has computed like EC2 and Lambda, Greengrass.
What snowball has to compute?
Snowball edge has computed in the form of EC2 and Lambda and storage up to 100TB
What is the max size of snowball edge?
It can be a max of 100TB
On what snowball can I run Greengrass?
Snowball edge