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Snowball

  • Writer: Rohan Roy
    Rohan Roy
  • May 10, 2021
  • 1 min read

Snowball is a petabyte-scale data transport solution that uses secure appliances to transfer large amounts of data into and out of AWS.

  • Comes in 50TB or 80TB size.

  • It uses tamper resistant enclosure, 256-bit encryption, and an industry standard Trusted Platform Module(TPM) designed to ensure both security and full chain-of-custody of data.

  • After data is transferred, processed and verified, AWS performs a software erasure of the Snowball appliance.


Snowball Edge is data transfer device with on-board storage and compute capabilities.

  • Comes in 100TB size.

  • Snowball Edge is used to move large amount of data into and out of AWS, as a temporary storage tier for large local datasets, or to support local workloads in remote and offline locations.

  • Snowball Edge can cluster together to form a local storage tier and process your data on-premise, helping ensure the applications continue to run even when they are not able to access the cloud.

Snowmobile is an Exabyte-scale data transfer service used to move extremely large amounts pf data to AWS.

  • Transfer up to 100PB per snowmobile.


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