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).

AWS Snowball

• 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

AWS Snowball Edge

• 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