AWS Storage Extras

Question 1

Highly - secure, portable devices to collect and process data at the edge, and migrate data into and out of AWS

Answer 1

AWS Snow Family

Question 2

What are the two uses cases for AWS Snow Family?

Answer 2

Data Migration

Edge Computing

Question 3

Physical data transport solution: move TBs or PBs of data in or out of AWS
(For data transfers)

Use case: large cloud migrations, decomission datacenters & disaster recovery

Answer 3

Snowball Edge

Question 4

• Small, portable computing, anywhere, rugged & secure, withstands harsh environments.
• 8 TB of usable storage
• Device used for edge computing, storage and data transfer

Answer 4

AWS Snowcone

Question 5

• Transfer exabytes of data (I EB = 1,000 PB = 1,000,000 TBs)
• Each (blank) has 100 PB of capacity (use multiplè in parallel)
• High security: temperature controlled, GPS, 24/7 video surveillance
• Better than Snowball if you transfer more than 10 PB

Answer 5

AWS Snowmobile

Question 6

Process data while it’s being created on an edge location

Answer 6

Edge Computing

Question 7

What is an edge location?

Answer 7

Anything that doesnt have internet or is far away from a cloud
(Truck on the road, ship on the sea, mining station underground)

Question 8

A software you install on your computer/laptop to manage your Snow Family Device

Answer 8

AWS OpsHub

Question 9

How would you have Snowball import data directly into Glacier?

Answer 9

You must use Amazon S3 first, combine w/ an S3 lifecycle policy