Snow Family

Question 1

What AWS service family provides physical devices with built-in computing power to facilitate large-scale data transportation to and from AWS?

Answer 1

Snow Family, these devices range from portable storage units to a full-sized truck for massive data transfers
- Snowcone (discontinued in 2024)
- Snowmobile (discontinued in 2024)
- Snowball Edge

Question 2

What considerations should be accounted for when ordering a Snow Family device to transfer large amounts of data to or from AWS?

Answer 2

• Data transfer is not instantaneous
• Devices have varying capacities and capabilities
• Network connectivity and infrastructure compatibility
• Plan for physical device shipping and storage

Question 3

What is the capacity of the smallest member of the AWS Snow Family?

Answer 3

Snowcone (discontinued in 2024)
- 8 TB HDD or 14 TB SSD storage
- 2 vCPUs

Question 4

What considerations should be taken into account when ordering AWS Snowmobile?

Answer 4

Snowmobile is discontinued in 2024
- Only one location for data transfer
- Stores up to 100 PB of data
- Not economical for transferring less than 10 PB of data

Question 5

What AWS Snow Family device includes onboard storage and compute power, enabling local data processing, edge-computing workloads, and data transfer to and from AWS Cloud?

Answer 5

Snowball Edge

Question 6

What are the two types of AWS Snowball Edge devices?

Answer 6

• Storage-Optimized: SSD 210TB NVMe, suitable for large-scale storage and data transfer
• Compute-Optimized: SSD 28TB NVMe, designed for edge computing workloads and processing tasks