Understanding Snowball and Snowmobile
To help customers transfer a huge amount of data (close to petabytes) to the cloud, Amazon offers data transportation services including AWS Snowcone, AWS Snowball, and AWS Snowmobile.
AWS Snowcone is a small, rugged, but secure and versatile device that can help organizations to extend their AWS infrastructure to the edge and enable them to do fast data transfers. With Snowcone, you can collect, process, and transfer data to AWS, either offline by shipping the device or online with AWS DataSync.
AWS Snowball is an appliance-based data transfer service that uses secure, portable storage devices that are delivered to your doorstep, for you to load your data and then send it back to AWS after the data transfer is complete. The data is encrypted during the transferring process, leveraging Amazon S3 for secure storage and Amazon Key Management Service (KMS) for encrypting the data on the device. An AWS Snowball appliance provides up to 80 TB...
