08 - Hybrid and Scaling

Snowball and Snowball Edge

  • Snowball and Snowball Edge is a rugged container which contains a storage device
  • It is used to move large amount of data quickly in and out of AWS. You can both export or import data using Snowball or Snowmobile
  • Snowball and Snowball Edge is peta-scale migration; Snowmobile is for exabyte-scale migration
  • Snowball comes in two sizes:
    • 50 TB (42 TB of usable space)
    • 80 TB (72 TB of usable space)
  • Snowball Edge comes in two sizes:
    • 100 TB (83 TB of usable space)
    • 100 TB Clustered (45 TB per node)
  • Snowball Edge includes both Storage and edge-computing workloads
  • Snowball Edge provides three options
    • Edge Storage Optimized (24 vCPU)
    • Edge Compute Optimized (52 vCPU))
    • Edge Compute Optimized with GPU
  • Snowball and Snowball Edge are idea for data transfer from 10 TB to 10 PB of data transfer

Snowmobile

  • It is 45 foot long ruggedize shipping container, pulled by a semi-trailer truck
  • Snowmobile comes in one size: 100 PB
  • Available in certain areas via special order from AWS
  • Ideal for greater than 10PB Data Transfer for a single location
  • Situated on side and connected into your data center for the duration of the transfer