snowball.txt

Snowball - Petabyte-scale data transport solution that uses secure appliances to transfer large amounts of data into and out of AWS. Addresses challenges with large-scale data transfers including high network costs, long transfer times, and security concerns.
- Storage only, up to 80TB
Snowball Edge - Snowball but with onboard compute functionality
- Storage up to 100TB
Snowmobile - Snowball for petabyte/exobyte amounts of data
- Storage up to 100PB


Exam Notes
- Understand what Snowball is
- Understand what Import Export is (old name for Snowball)
- Snowball can:
--- import to S3
--- export from S3