Physical Devices for Data Migration and Edge Computing
Snowball
Older generation
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Snowball Edge
Better option Snowball
Can have EC2 capability option, which enables hosting EC2 on it too.
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Snowmobile
One-site mobile DC
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Use cases:
Data Migration
Sometimes transferring large amounts of data is not a viable option
Inability to increase the bandwidth/share bandwith
Network instability
Process
We request AWS Snowball device (e.g Edge), record the data, send it back to AWS, they will import it via physical connection.
Edge Computing
Some locations may not have not only internet but power (Mines, Ships..), etc. So we need to have a device which will pre process the data at the place. (ML, Media Stream transcoding, Preprocessing)
CLI + OPS Hub GUI
AWS re:Invent 2016: Move Exabyte-Scale Data Sets with AWS Snowmobile - YouTube