Amazon Snow Family
AWS Snow Family is a collection of physical devices and capacity points that help customers with data transfers in and out of AWS when network capacity is limited or unavailable. It includes Snowcone, Snowball, and Snowmobile devices for edge computing and offline data migration.
APIs
AWS Snow Device Management API
The AWS Snow Device Management API provides programmatic access to manage Snow device jobs, tasks, device resources, and network configurations for edge computing and data trans...
Features
Transfer large datasets to AWS using physical devices.
Run compute workloads at the edge with Snowball Edge and Snowcone.
Use multiple Snow Family devices as a cluster for more storage and compute.
All data is automatically encrypted with 256-bit encryption.
Use Cases
Migrate terabytes to petabytes of data to AWS.
Run AWS compute in environments with no internet connectivity.
Collect and transfer disaster recovery data to AWS.
Integrations
Transfer data directly to S3 buckets using Snow devices.
Run IoT Greengrass on Snowball Edge for edge IoT workloads.
Run EC2 compute instances on Snowball Edge devices.
Use DataSync with Snow Family for accelerated data transfer.