AWS Snow Family

• There is a scenario where our complete data is on on-premise servers, so in order to migrate it to AWS cloud, simple cable might not be the fastest method. So in such case, this requirement is fulfilled by AWS Snow Family.
• Data Migration
• Highly Secure, Portable Device to collect to process data at the edge & Migrate data into & out of AWS.

• The edge compute is present in snow cone and snowball edge but not in snowmoble

Challenges to transfer for data over network
- Limited Connectivity
- Limited Bandwidth
- High Network Cost
- Shared Bandwidth
- Connection Stablity

Why do we require AWS Snow Family to transfer data?

		Time To Transfer
		100mbps	1Gbps	10Gbps
----		----------------	-------	-------
10TB		12 days	30 hours	3 hours
100TB		124 days	12 days	30 hours
1PB		3 years	124 days	12 days

AWS Snowball Edge

• Snowball Edge (Storage Optimized) : 80TB of HDD Capacity.
• Snowball Edge (Compute Optimize) : 42TB of HDD or 28TB NVMe Capacity.
• Pay per data job.
• Usecase: Large Data cloud migration, DC decomission, Disaster Recovery.