What is AWS Snowball?
AWS Snowball is a data transfer device. You can transfer your offline data from S3 buckets using AWS snowball.
With AWS Snowball (Snowball), you can transfer hundreds of terabytes or petabytes of data between your on-premises data centers and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). It mainly Uses a secure storage device for physical transportation.
AWS Snowball Client is software that is installed on a local computer and is used to identify, compress, encrypt, and transfer data. The data in snow devices are very secured it uses 256-bit encryption (managed with the AWS KMS) and tamper-resistant enclosures with TPM.
To speed up data transfer it is recommended to run simultaneous instances of the AWS Snowball Client in multiple terminals and transfer small files as batches.
AWS Snowball devices
There are different types of snowball devices are available. The capacity of the device varies based on the devices.
Snowcone
It is a small device used for edge computing, storage, and data transfer. You can transfer up to 8 TB with a single AWS Snowcone device and can transfer…
