What is aws snow familly and its use cases

This recipe explains what is aws snow familly and its use cases

What is aws snow family and its use cases?

What is aws snow family?

AWS offers edge infrastructure and software that moves data processing and analysis as close to the source of the data as possible in order to provide intelligent, real-time responsiveness and reduce data transfer. This includes deploying AWS managed hardware and software beyond AWS Regions and even AWS Outposts.

The AWS Snow Family is a service that allows users to perform operations in sparse, non-data center environments or in locations with intermittent network connections. In locations where an internet connection is not available, you can use these devices to access the AWS Cloud's storage and computation resources locally and affordably. The AWS Snow family includes the AWS Snowcone, AWS Snowball, and AWS Snowmobile. Physical objects with built-in computer power are part of the family, as are capacity points. They help with data movement into and out of AWS.

Customers who need to run operations in remote, non-data center environments or in areas with inconsistent network connectivity can use the AWS Snow Family. The Snow Family, which includes AWS Snowcone, AWS Snowball, and AWS Snowmobile, offers a wide range of physical devices and capacity points, with the majority of them including built-in computing capabilities. These services help with the physical transfer of up to exabytes of data into and out of Amazon Web Services. Snow Family devices are owned and managed by AWS, and they integrate with AWS security, monitoring, storage management, and computing capabilities.

AWS Snowmobile, a petabyte-scale data transfer service, allows users to send massive amounts of data to Amazon Web Services. A Snowmobile, a 45-foot ruggedized shipping container carried by a semi-trailer truck, can transport up to 100 PB. Snowmobile makes it simple to move large amounts of data to the cloud, such as video libraries, photo archives, or even entire data centres. Snowmobiling is a more efficient, quick, and cost-effective way to transfer data.

In addition to some contained computing skills, the Snow family of businesses provides a variety of tangible objects and capability points. Because of these features, we can realistically transport Extra bytes of data into and out of AWS. The Snow utility family is owned and operated by AWS, and it combines AWS security and inspection with computing power and excellent data storage management. You can use this service by submitting a device request through the AWS interface. You will receive the device after placing your order, which you can fill out with all of your pertinent information before sending it back to us.

AWS Snow Family members

    • AWS Snowcone

The AWS Snowcone device is the smallest in the AWS Snow Family of edge computing and data transfer devices. Snowcone is lightweight, durable, and safe. Snowcone can be used to collect, process, and move data to AWS either offline (via shipping the device) or online (via AWS DataSync).

Running applications in disconnected environments and connected edge locations can be difficult due to a lack of space, power, and cooling required for data centre IT equipment. AWS Snowcone securely stores data at the edge and can run edge computing workloads that use AWS IoT Greengrass or Amazon EC2 instances. Snowcone devices are small and light, weighing only 4.5 pounds (2.1 kilogrames), making them ideal for use in IoT, vehicular, or even drone applications.

    • AWS Snowball

AWS Snowball is a data migration and edge computing device that is available in two flavours: compute optimized and storage optimized.Snowball Edge Storage Optimized devices have a compute capacity of 40 vCPUs and 80 terabytes of usable block or Amazon S3-compatible object storage. It is ideal for local storage as well as large-scale data transfer. Snowball Edge Compute Optimized devices offer 52 vCPUs, 42 terabytes of usable block or object storage, and an optional GPU for use cases like advanced machine learning and full motion video analysis in remote environments. Customers can use these two options to collect data, perform machine learning and processing, and store it in environments with intermittent connectivity (such as manufacturing, industrial, and transportation) or in extremely remote locations (such as military or maritime operations) before shipping it back to AWS. These devices can also be rack mounted and clustered to form larger, temporary installations.

    • AWS Snowmobile

AWS Snowmobile transports up to 100 PB of data in a ruggedized shipping container 45 feet long, making it ideal for multi-petabyte or Exabyte-scale digital media migrations and data center shutdowns. When a Snowmobile arrives at the customer's location, it appears as a network-attached data store, allowing for more secure, high-speed data transfer. After data is transferred to Snowmobile, it is returned to an AWS Region and loaded into Amazon S3.Snowmobile has multiple layers of logical and physical security, including encryption, fire suppression, dedicated security personnel, GPS tracking, alarm monitoring, 24/7 video surveillance, and an escort security vehicle during transit.

The following scenarios can make use of AWS Snow Family services:

During cloud migration, large amounts of data are transferred.

On-premises data backup for disaster recovery.

Data center relocation and/or remote data collection

A physically isolated environment with no high-speed Internet access.

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