Snowball and other storage

Question 1

AWS Snow Family

Answer 1

Highly secure, portable device that collect and process data at the edge and migrate data into and out of AWS
* Snow Cone
* Snowball Edge

Question 2

Snow Cone

Answer 2

• Storage: between 8 TB HDD and 14 TB SSD
• Migration size: Up to terabytes

Question 3

Snowball Edge

Answer 3

• Storage: between 80 TB and 210 TB
• Migration size: up to petabytes

Question 4

Snow Family - Usage Process

Answer 4

1. Request Snowball devices from AWS console
2. Install snowball client / AWS OpsHub on server
3. Connect device to server and copy
4. Ship back to AWS
5. Data loaded into S3 bucket
6. Snowball device wiped

Question 5

Edge Computing

Answer 5

• Process data while it’s being created on an edge location
• Location may have limited internet and no access to computers (truck, ship, ect)
• Setup Snowball Edge / Snowcone device to do edge computing
• Use Case:
  Preprocess data Where its created
  Machine Lerning
  Transcoding Media

Question 6

Snowball Edge Pricing

Answer 6

• Pay for device usage and data transfer out of AWS
• Data transfer in free
• On-Demand & Committed Upfront

Question 7

Hybrid Cloud for Storage use case

Answer 7

• Long cloud migration
• Security requirements
• Compliance requirements
• IT strategy

Question 8

AWS Storage Gateway

Answer 8

• Bridge between on prem data and cloud data in S3
• Allow on prem to seamlessly use AWS
• Disaster recovery
  *Backup and restore
• Tiered storage

Question 9

Snowball Edge Pricing - On-Demand

Answer 9

One-time service fee per job
* 10 days of usage for Snowball Edge Storage Optimized 80TB
* 15days of usage for Snowball Edge Storage Optimized 210TB
* Shipping days not included
* Pay per day for any additional days

Question 10

Snowball Edge Pricing - Committed Upfront

Answer 10

• Pay in advance for monthly, 1 & 3 years of usage (Edge Computing)
• Up to 62% discount