AWS-Snowball

• Snowball is a petabyte-scale data transport solution.

• Uses secure appliances to transfer large amounts of data into and out of aws.

• Transferring data with Snowball is simple, fast, secure and one-fifth of the cost of the high-speed internet.

• Finally, there are 80TB Snowball in all the regions.

• Snowball provides tamper-resistant enclosures, 256-bit encryption, and an industry-standard Trusted Platform Module (TPM) to ensure security.

• Once the data transfer job has been processed and verified, the AWS performs software erasure of the software appliance.

• Snowball Edge is a 100 TB data transfer device with on-board storage and compute capabilities.

• Snowball Edge is like an AWS data center that you can bring on-premises.

• Snowball edge can be used to move large amounts of data into and out of AWS.

• We can also run Lambda functions from Snowball edge, it brings compute capacity where we are not able to do it

• A Snowmobile is an exabyte-scale data transfer service.

• You can transfer 100 PB per Snowmobile, a 45-foot long ruggedized shipping container, pulled by a semi-trailer truck.