[AWS Solution Architect] Snowball / Snowball Edge / Snowmobile

Snowball

when you try and transfer 100 terabytes over a high speed internet to AWS, it could take over 100 days - but with a snowball, it will take less than a week.

come with the kind of digitial shipping label
temper and weather proof
The data is encrypted end to end using tivity.
has Trusted Platform Module (TPM) (chip)
- a specialized chip on an endpoint device that stores RSA encryption keys specific to the host system for hardware authentication.
For security purposes, data transfers must be completed within 90days of the Snowball being prepared.
Snowball can import and export from S3

in two sizes
50 terabytes (42 TB of usable space)
80 terabytes (72 TB of usable space)
you don’t need to utilize the space on there
petabyte scale migration
- you can use multiple snowballs to get to petabytes
  - A petabyte is a multiple of a byte

snowball + more storage and onsite compute capacity capabilties.
difference
- orange bars
  - that’s the way to distinguish snowball from snoball edge.
- more storage and with local processing

LCD display
- shipping information and other functionality
- instead of having E-ink display
⭐️ can undertake local processing and edge-computing workloads
can use in a cluster in groups of 5 to 10 devices
- you can get a bunch of these noble edges
- have them work on a single job that is kind of like having your own little mini data center up to five to 10 devices.
three options for device configurations
- you can optimize what you need
- and the CPU amounts are goint to change in this device based on what you need.
- storage optimized (24 vCPUs)
- compute optimized (54 vCPUs)
- GPU optimized (54 vCPUs)

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