Migration (AWS Snow)

Question 1

What is an AWS Storage Gateway? How is it deployed?

Answer 1

Storage Gateway allows you to extend your on-premises storage into the cloud in various ways. It is deployed as an agent in your on-premises network.

https://aws.amazon.com/storagegateway/file/s3/

Question 2

What is AWS File Gateway?

Answer 2

• Its NFS or SMB mount in the cloud.
• Allows existing file-based apps to use AWS storage without needing to be modified

Question 3

What will help if your users are running out of storage in your network?

Answer 3

Leverage AWS File Gateway as a network fileshare.

Question 4

What are two options for using File Gateway?

Answer 4

• Keep data local and back it up
• Keep the most recently used files on-prem, the rest in S3 - Cached File Gateway

Question 5

What is Volume Gateway?

Answer 5

Volume gateway is a flavor of AWS Storage Gateway which focuses on hard drives. It backs up on premises drives into AWS.

Block level storage

https://aws.amazon.com/storagegateway/volume/?nc=sn&loc=2&dn=4

Question 6

What is AWS Data Sync

Answer 6

Agent-based solution for moving data to AWS

Question 7

What migrations does AWS migration hub help with?

Answer 7

• Single pane of glass to track migrations
• Integrates with server migration service
• Integrates with database migration service

Question 8

What are the members of the AWS Snow in ascending order of space?

Answer 8

• Snowcone
• Snowball
• Snowmobile

Question 9

What is the use case for AWS Snowcone

Answer 9

• limited power and space
• IoT integration
• allows processing

Question 10

How much Hard Drive and RAM does an SAWS Snowcone have

Answer 10

• 4 gb RAM
• 8TB HD

Question 11

Whats the use case for AWS Snowball Edge

Answer 11

• More space is needed, a bit heavier. Use cases vary by the flavor
• Off the grid computing
• No connection
• One time migrations
• Support Lamda

Question 12

What is the Storage capacity of AWS Snowball?

Answer 12

• 50-80TB

Question 13

What are the 4 flavors of AWS Snowball?

Answer 13

• Storage Optimized - Data transfer 80TB usable
• Storage Optimized with EC2 - 80TB, 24 vCPUs. 32Gb for compute. Attached EC2 AMIs
• Compute Optimized - Most compute!
• GPU Optimized - same as compute + GPU

Question 14

How much storage does an AWS Snowmobile have?

Answer 14

• 100pb

Question 15

How does the cost of snowball compare to using internet connections

Answer 15

As low as one fifth

Question 16

How long would it take to transfer 100TB of data over a 100mb connection? with a 1 gb connection?

Answer 16

• 100-120 days @100mbps
• 10-12 days @ 1000mbps

Question 17

What are the 4 flavors of AWS Storage Gateway? How is it deployed?

Answer 17

• S3 File Gateway
• FSx File Gateway
• Volume Gateway
• Tape Gateway
• Its deployed in the on-premises data center as a virtual machine or hardware appliance (the Customer Gateway)

Question 18

What are two flavors of AWS File Gateway?

Answer 18

• S3
• FSx (think windows)

Question 19

What are the use cases for AWS Snowball Edge

Answer 19

• Remote computing where network connectivity is limited. Allows you to process and collect data to be uploaded to AWS later.
• Migration