Snowball-AWS Blog Info
Import/Export Disk It accelerates moving large amounts of data into and out of the AWS cloud using portable storage devices for transport. For example, if you have 500 TB data and you got a slow internet connection, i.e., 1mbps. Instead of sending the data over the internet, you can send it to Amazon through an external hard disk, and they would transfer your data directly onto and off of storage devices using Amazon's high-speed internal network and bypassing an internet. Lots of people started using it, and they were all sending different types of disks, connections which became difficult to manage. Re: invent 2015: Amazon released Standard Snowball. Re: invent 2016: Amazon released Snowball Edge as well as Snowmobile. Snowball Snowball is a petabyte-scale data transport solution that uses secure appliances to transfer large amounts of data into and out of aws. It is a streamline bringing the data into aws and bypassing an internet. Instead of managing all the external disks, Ama...