Snow Family

Snowcone

It is portable, rugged and secure device for edge computing and data transfer
Snowcone is available in two flavors:
- Snowcone: has two vCPUs, 4 GB of memory and 8 TB of HDD based drive
- Snowcone SSD: has two vCPUs, 4 GB of memory and 14 TB of SSD based storage
Use cases for Snowcone:
- Edge computing applications, to collect data, process the data to gain immediate insight, and then transfer the data online to AWS
- Transfer data that is continuously generated by sensors or machines online to AWS in a factory or at other edge locations
- Distribute media, scientific, or other content from AWS storage services to your partners and customers
- Aggregate content by transferring media, scientific, or other content from your edge locations to AWS

It is a device which is ordered from AWS, log a job and device will be delivered to us
Any data stored in Snowball is encrypted using KMS
There are 2 types of devices with 50 TB and 80T B capacity
In terms of network connectivity we can have 1 Gbps (RJ45 1GBase-TX) or 10 Gbps (LR/SR) networking
Economical range for a Snowball is 10 TB to 10 PB range of data (multiple devices can be used)
Multiple devices can be ordered and be sent to multiple business premises
Snowball only includes storage capability

Includes both storage capability and compute capability
It has a larger capacity compared to classic Snowball and has faster networking connection
There are 3 different type of Snowball Edge:
- Storage optimized (with EC2 capability): 80 TB, 24 vCPU, 32 Gib RAM, 1 TB of local SSD for EC2 usage
- Compute optimized: 100 TB + 7.68 NVME, 52 vCPU, 208 Gib RAM
- Compute optimized with GPU: 100 TB + 7.68 NVME, 52 vCPU, 208 Gib RAM, GPU
Ideal for remote sites or where data processing on ingestion is needed