AWS Snow Family

Score9.4 out of 10

2 Reviews and Ratings

What is AWS Snow Family?

The AWS Snow Family is a collection of physical devices that help migrate large amounts of data into and out of the cloud without depending on networks. AWS Snowcone is the smallest member of the AWS Snow Family of edge computing and data transfer devices, presented as portable, rugged, and secure. AWS Snowball is a suitcase-sized data migration and edge computing device that comes in two device options: Compute Optimized and Storage Optimized presenting terabytes of usable block or Amazon S3-compatible object storage . AWS Snowmobile is a shipping container moved with a tractor-trailer, used to assist with data migration, disaster recovery, data center shutdown, and remote data collection projects.

Categories & Use Cases

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Since ever we started using the AWS snow family, it has been very easy for us to migrate the existing data to the AWS snow family. Our on-premise servers are having a huge amount of data, we were worried about it how to migrate this data to other servers. Then AWS snow family - snowmobile helped us a lot to migrate the huge data in a smooth manner.

Pros

Data migration.
Transfer speed.
Performance.

Cons

Surveillance
Security

Most Important Features

Data Migration
Storage
performance

Return on Investment

No negative impact.
No unforeseen conditions that impact ROI.

Alternatives Considered

AWS Database Migration Service

Other Software Used

AWS Database Migration Service, AWS Auto Scaling, AWS Batch