Snow Family Flashcards
Highly-secure, portable devices to collect and process data at the edge,
and migrate data into and out of AWS
AWS Snow Family
What are 2 process you can use AWS Snow Family for??
Data Migration
Edge Computing
What are the 3 Snow Family Products for Data Migration
Snowcone
Snowball Edge
Snowmoblie
What are the 2 Snow Family Products for Edge Computing
Snowcone
Snowball Edge
What are the 5 challenges of Data Migrations that the AWS Snow Family can help with??
- Limited connectivity
- Limited bandwidth
- High network cost
- Shared bandwidth (can’t maximize the line)
- Connection stability
offline devices to perform data migrations
AWS Snow Family
If it takes more than a ______ to transfer over the network, use Snowball devices!
week
- Physical data transport solution:moveTBs or PBs of data in or out of AWS
- Alternative to moving data over the network (and paying network fees)
- Pay per data transfer job
- Provide block storage and Amazon S3-compatible object storage
Snowball Edge (for data transfers)
What are the 2 flavors of Snowball Edge??
Storage Optimized
Compute Optimized
80 TB of HDD capacity for block volume and S3 compatible object
storage
Snowball Edge Storage Optimized
42 TB of HDD or 28TB NVMe capacity for block volume and S3 compatible object storage
Snowball Edge Compute Optimized
What are 3 use cases for Snowball Edge?
large data cloud migrations
DC decommission
disaster recovery
- Small, portable computing, anywhere, rugged & secure, withstands harsh environments
- Light (4.5 pounds, 2.1 kg)
- Device used for edge computing, storage, and data
transfer
AWS Snowcone
2 types of Snowcones?
Snowcone
Snowcone SSD
8 TB of HDD Storage
Snowcone
14 TB of SSD Storage
Snowcone SSD
Where to use Snowcones??
where Snowball does not fit (space- constrained environment)
For Snowcones, do you have to provide your own battery / cables?
YES
Snowcones, can be sent back to ________, or connect it to
internet and use _________ to send data
AWS offline
AWS DataSync
- Transfer exabytes of data (1 EB = 1,000 PB = 1,000,000 TBs)
- Each Snowmobile has 100 PB of capacity (use multiple in parallel)
- High security: temperature controlled, GPS, 24/7 video surveillance
- Better than Snowball if you transfer more than 10 PB
AWS Snowmobile
What are the 6 steps to the Snow Family – Usage Process
- Request Snowball devices from the AWS console for delivery
- Install the snowball client / AWS OpsHub on your servers
- Connect the snowball to your servers and copy files using the client
- Ship back the device when you’re done (goes to the right AWS facility)
- Data will be loaded into an S3 bucket
- Snowball is completely wiped
Snow Family – Edge Computing -
* 2 CPUs, 4 GB of memory, wired or wireless access
* USB-C power using a cord or the optional battery
Snowcone
Snowcone SSD (smaller)
Snow Family – Edge Computing -
* 104 vCPUs, 416 GiB of RAM
* Optional GPU (useful for video processing or machine learning)
* 28 TB NVMe or 42TB HDD usable storage
Snowball Edge – Compute Optimized
Snow Family – Edge Computing -
* Up to 40 vCPUs, 80GiB of RAM, 80TB storage
* Object storage clustering available
Snowball Edge – Storage Optimized
Can you run EC2 Instances and AWS Lambda Functions on Snow Family?
YES
What AWS product is used to run EC2 Instances and AWS Lambda Functions on Snow Family?
AWS IoT Greengrass
What are the 2 long-term deployment options for discount pricing on Snow Family Products
1 and 3 years
What AWS software do you use to manage Snow Family Devices?
AWS OpsHub
- Unlocking and configuring single or clustered devices
- Transferring files
- Launching and managing instances running on Snow Family Devices
- Monitor device metrics (storage capacity, active instances on your device)
- Launch compatible AWS services on your devices (ex: Amazon EC2 instances, AWS DataSync, Network File System (NFS))
AWS OpsHub
Can you import from Snowball directly into S3 Glacier??
NO