Snow family

Question 1

What is the general purpose of AWS’s Snow family services?

Answer 1

“Large scale data transfer via physical device

Cheaper and faster than transfering all the data via internet”

Question 2

What are the current members of the Snow Family services?

Answer 2

“Snowcone
Snowball
Snowball Edge
Snowmobile”

Question 3

What are common features of the Snow Family services?

Answer 3

“Can be used either import or export data
Transfer via NFS
Data is encrypted in the container”

Question 4

“Estimated time difference transfering 100TB using:
high speed internet
and Snow family service”

Answer 4

“High speed internet
over 100 days to transfer
Snow family services
less than a week”

Question 5

What are the main features of Snowcone?

Answer 5

“Smallest device in the Snow Family, can run on batteries
2 CPUs
Can run edge computing workloads using EC2 and encrypt data
8TB”

Question 6

What are the main features of Snowball?

Answer 6

“Comes in two sizes
50TB(42 TB of usable space)
80TB(72 TB of usable space)
E-ink display for shipping label”

Question 7

What are the main featuress of Snowball Edge?

Answer 7

"Comes in two sizes
   100 TB(83 TB of usable space)
   100 TB Clustered(45 TB of usable space) groups of 5-10 devices
CPU options
   storage optimized (24 vCPUs)
   compute optimized (54 vCPUs)
   GPU optimized (54 vCPUs)
Can run edge computing workloads using EC2 and encrypt data"

Question 8

What are the main features of Snowmobile?

Answer 8

“45-foot long shipping container pulled by semi-trailer truck
Designed for exabyte-cale data migration
100 Peta-bytes of usable space per container”