AWS Storage Extras Flashcards
AWS Snow Family
Highly Secure portable devices.
They collect and process data at edge OR migrate data into and out of AWS
Data Migration Snow devices
Snowcone
Snowball Edge
Snowmobile
Edge computing
Snowcone
Snowball Edge
Why would you want to use AWS Snow Family?
Because of the time to transfer huge amounts of data. Takes hours to days.
Perfect for data migration
How does AWS Snow Family work?
You order AWS Snowball online. It gets shipped to you. You add the data in, and then ship it to AWS. They import/export the data into your Amazon S3 bucket
SnowBall Edge (data transfers)
Move data in or out of AWS
Pay per data transfer job
Block storage and Amazon S3-compatible object storage
What are the 2 flavours of SnowBall Edge?
Storage Optimised - 80 TB of HDD
Compute Optimised - 42 TB of HDD or 28 TB of NVMe
SnowBall Edge use cases
Large data cloud migrations
Decommission Data Centre
Disaster Recovery
AWS Snowcone & Snowcone SSD
Small
Portable computing
rugged & secure
for harsh environments
Snowcone use cases?
edge computing, storage, data transfer
Snowcone size
8 TB of HDD
Snowcone SSD
14 TB of SSD
What type of constrains do you need to have to use snowcone instead of snowball?
Space constrains, this is tiny
What do you need to provide yourself for snowcone?
Battery / cables
How do you transfer data from snowcone to AWS?
By sending it offline (shipping)
OR
Connect to internet and use AWS DataSync to send data
AWS Snowmobile
For transferring exabytes
1 EB = 1000 PB = 1,000,000 TBs
What is the capacity of AWS Snowmobile?
100 PB (can use multiple in parallel)
How is a snowmobile protected?
Temp controlled tuck
GPS
24/7 video surveillance
When would you choose Snowmobile over Snowball?
When you need to transfer more than 10 PB
How does data migration work with snowball devices?
Request snowball from AWS console
install snowball client or AWS OpsHub on your servers
connect to servers and copy using client
ship back device to AWS facility
data are loaded to S3 bucket
snowball is wiped completely
How does data migration work with snowball devices?
Request snowball from AWS console
install snowball client or AWS OpsHub on your servers
connect to servers and copy using client
ship back device to AWS facility
data are loaded to S3 bucket
snowball is wiped completely
How can you use snowball devices for Edge Computing?
Process data while created on edge location
Snowball edge / snowcone can do this
Perfect for limited / no internet access locations
Edge Computing use cases
Preprocess data
Machine learning at the edge
Transcoding media streams
What can you do if you need to with edge computing after you are done?
Can also send it back to AWS to data transfer
When would you use edge computing?
If you are at a location that has no / limited internet access
limited / no computing power
What are some Edge Computing examples?
Truck on road, ship on sea, mining station underground
What are the deployment options of Edge computing?
1 or 3 year options discounted pricing
AWS OpsHub
Software to install on PC or laptop, to manage snow family devices. Graphical interface
How do you transfer data from Snowball into Glacier?
Order Snowball, add the data in, import it to amazon S3, create an S3 lifecycle policy that moves the data into glacier
What is Amazon FSx?
Allows to launch 3d party-high performance file systems on AWS
As a fully managed service
What are the 4 FSx types?
For Lustre
For Windows File Server
For NetApp ONTAP
For OpenZFS
FSx for Windows (File Server)
fully managed windows file system share drive
supports SMB protocol & Windows NTFS
Microsoft AD integration, ACL, user quotas
Can be mounted on EC2 instances (Linux)
Supports Microsofts Distributed File Systems (DFS) Name spaces (group files across multiple FS)
Benefits of FSx for Windows?
scale up to 10s of GB/s, millions of IOPS, 100s PB of data
SSD & HDD
Can be accessed from on-prem infra (VPN or Direct Connect)
Can be multi-AZ (HA)
Data backed to S3 d aily
Amazon FSx for Lustre
Linux & Cluster (derived)
Type of parallel distributed file system for large-scale computing
Used for ML, High Performance Computing (HPC)
Video processing, financial modeling, electronic design automation
SSD & HDD
Seamless Integration with S3
can read S3 as a file system through FSx
Can write output of the computations back to S3 (through FSx)
Can be used on-prem servers (VPN or Direct Connect)