AWS Snowball is a storage device used to transfer a large amount of data

ranging from 50TB - 80TB between Amazon Simple Storage Service and

onsite data storage location at high speed.

● These devices are protected by the AWS Key Management Service to

protect data in transit securely.

● AWS Snow Family Management Console helps to manage data transfer jobs

using job management API.

● The Snowball client and the Amazon S3 Adapter for Snowball are used to

perform data transfers on the Snowball device locally.

● If data transfers involve large files and multiple jobs, you might separate the

data into several smaller data segments. Troubleshooting a large transfer

can be more complicated than a small transfer. Parallelization helps to

transfer data with Snowball at a faster rate.

● AWS Snowball is integrated with other AWS services such as AWS

CloudTrail to capture all API calls as events and with Amazon Simple

Notification Service (Amazon SNS) to notify about data transfer.

● AWS Snowball Edge is a type of Snowball device that can transport data at

speeds faster than the internet and can do local processing and

edge-computing workloads between the local environment and the AWS

Cloud.

● Using Snowball Edge devices, one can execute EC2 AMIs and deploy AWS

Lambda code on the devices to perform processing and analysis with the

applications.