Snowball and Snowball Edge

In this, we will learn the concepts of Snowball and Snowball Edge.

SOA-C01 exam is updated to AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate (SOA-C02).

Migrate bulk data from on-premises storage and Hadoop clusters to S3 buckets.
Has an HDFS client, to migrate data directly from Hadoop clusters into an S3 bucket.
To migrate,
- create a job in the AWS Management Console
- a Snowball appliance will be automatically shipped to you.
- Then, connect to local network,
- Use the Snowball client to select and transfer the file directories to the Snowball device.
- After data transfer, the Snowball’s E-Ink shipping label will automatically update.
- Ship the device back to AWS.
- Upon receipt at AWS, data is transferred from Snowball to S3 bucket.
Snowball client uses AES-256-bit encryption.
Encryption keys are never shipped with the Snowball device

It is a type of Snowball device with on-board storage and compute power for select AWS capabilities
an undertake local processing and edge-computing workloads
can transfer data between local environment and AWS
devices have three options for device configurations
- storage optimized
- compute optimized
- with GPU
Encryption is enforced
import or export data between local environments and Amazon S3
can cluster Snowball Edge devices
File share or Network File System (NFS) mount point, supported
AWS services supported
- AWS S3
- Then, AWS EC2
- AWS Lambda

File Gateway

Volume Gateways with Cached Volumes Architecture

Volume Gateways with Stored Volumes Architecture

Tape Gateways