Migrating large datasets to AWS with the AWS Snow Family

Many companies looking to move to the cloud generally host vast amounts of data on premises. While it is possible to transfer data over the public internet into Amazon S3, customers with vast amounts of data may need to consider offline methods of transfer due to bandwidth limitations.

AWS offers rugged devices that can be delivered to your on-premises location. These include the Snowcone, Snowball, and Snowmobile devices.

AWS Snowball

At its very basic offering, you simply copy large amounts of data to the device and ship it back to AWS to have the data imported into Amazon S3. These devices are known as AWS Snowball devices and are part of the Snow Family of devices.

These edge devices come with compute and storage capabilities contained in highly rugged, tamper-proof devices. The devices feature a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) chip that detects unauthorized modifications to hardware, software, or firmware...