AWS Snowball resources

AWS Snowball Edge Storage Optimized 210TB device is now available in three additional regions: Asia Pacific (Mumbai), South America (Sao Paulo), and Asia Pacific (Seoul). The AWS Snowball Edge Storage Optimized 210TB features storage capacity of 210TB per device and high performance NVMe storage, enabling customers to quickly complete large data migrations.

For the majority of data migration workloads, customers should use AWS DataSync as a secure, online service that automates and accelerates moving data between on premises and AWS Storage services. When bandwidth is limited, or a connection is intermittent, customers can use AWS Snowball Edge Storage Optimized 210TB for offline data migration.

The AWS Snowball Edge Storage Optimized 210TB device supports two pricing options for data migration: less than 100TB, and from 100TB to 210TB pricing. To learn more, visit the AWS Snowball Pricing, Snow product page and Snow Family documentation.

AWS Snowball Edge Storage Optimized 210TB device now offers a 100TB pricing option for data migration. With this offering, the AWS Snowball Edge Storage Optimized 210TB device supports two pricing options for data migration: less than 100TB, and from 100TB to 210TB pricing. In addition, the AWS Snowball Edge Storage Optimized 210 device is now available in the following additional regions: Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Jakarta), Canada (Central), Europe (Stockholm), and Europe (Milan).

For the majority of data migration workloads, customers should use AWS DataSync as a secure, online service that automates and accelerates moving data between on premises and AWS Storage services. When bandwidth is limited, or a connection is intermittent, customers can use AWS Snowball Edge Storage Optimized 210TB for offline data migration.

The 100TB pricing option is available in all AWS Regions where the AWS Snowball Edge Storage Optimized 210TB is available. Learn more, visit the AWS Snowball Pricing, Snow product page and Snow Family documentation.

AWS Snowblade is available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. AWS Snowblade is limited to U.S. Department of Defense customers under the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) contract. You can learn more on the AWS Cloud for Defense page. To order a device contact your AWS Account team, or AWS Sales support.

^{06/19/2023 - This post has been updated to reflect “EC2-compatible” Snow Family instances. EC2-compatible instances allow customers using Snow Family devices to use a subset of EC2 APIs and AMIs.}

The updated Snowball Edge Storage Optimized configuration is available now in the US East (N. Virginia), and US West (Oregon) Regions. You can learn more about Snowball in the AWS Snowball Edge documentation To learn more, visit the Snow product page, and Snow Family documentation. To order a device contact your AWS Account team, or AWS Sales support.

AWS Snowball devices are now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (Jakarta) Region.

AWS Snowball, a member of the AWS Snow Family, is an edge computing, data migration, and edge storage device that comes in two configurations - Snowball Edge Storage Optimized and Snowball Edge Compute Optimized. The Snowball Edge Storage Optimized device provides 80 TB of Amazon S3 compatible object storage and is designed for local storage and large-scale data transfer. The Snowball Edge Compute Optimized device provides 52 vCPUs, 7.68 TB of NVMe SSD storage, 42TB of HDD storage, and 208 GB of RAM for use cases like advanced machine learning and full motion video analysis in disconnected environments.

You can use Snowball Edge Compute Optimized devices for data collection, machine learning and processing, and storage in environments with intermittent connectivity, like manufacturing, industrial, and transportation environments, or in extremely remote locations, like during military or maritime operations, before shipping the devices back to AWS. All AWS Snowball devices can be rack mounted and clustered together to build larger temporary installations.

For Regional availability, check the Regional Service Availability pages for the latest information. For temporary deployments, you can choose the on-demand pricing option, which includes 10 days of device use and a per-day fee for every additional day you use the device before sending it back to AWS. For longer-term deployments, AWS provides discounted 1-year and 3-year pricing. For pricing information, visit the AWS Snowball pricing page. To get started, visit the AWS Management Console. To learn more, visit the AWS Snowball Edge documentation or the AWS Snowball product page.

Today we are launching the ability for AWS Snowball Edge customers to update device certificates for Snowball Edge devices deployed at edge locations. Customers, Solutions Architects, or Account Managers can open a support case with AWS Snow team to request software update package with new device certificate. Customers then use the existing software update process to apply the new device certificate to their Snow devices. This enables customers to deploy Snowball Edge devices for multiple years without having to replace devices to update their operating certificates.

Prior to this launch, customers had to replace their Snowball Edge devices when the device certificate expired in 360 days. Customers could not update the device certificates on Snowball Edge devices deployed in the field. Replacing an existing Snow device with a new replacement snowball edge every 360 days caused disruption to customer’s continued operations in the field. With this launch, customers do not have to replace their devices due to device certificate expiry and can offline update the device certificate in the field.

This feature is available in all commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions where Snowball Edge devices are available at no additional cost. To learn more, visit the AWS Snowball documentation and the AWS Snowball product page. Log into the AWS Snow Family console to get started.

Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) Anywhere on Snow, a new deployment option that helps customers create and operate Kubernetes clusters on AWS Snow Family devices. EKS Anywhere on Snow is designed to provide Kubernetes cluster provisioning and familiar operational visibility tooling for customers to manage container applications lifecycle running on Snow devices deployed at the edge. 

Customers are building modern, infrastructure-agnostic applications using Kubernetes running on single or multiple devices. EKS Anywhere on Snow is ideal for customers who run their operations using secure and durable AWS Snow Family devices in unconditioned or mobile environments such as construction sites, ships, and rapidly deployed military forces. Customers use AWS Snow Family devices to run compute intensive telecom workloads and other applications in edge locations with denied, disrupted, intermittent, or limited (DDIL) network connectivity. Customers use AWS OpsHub for Snow Family to manage the Snow devices operating at the edge locally or remotely from a central location. 

To get started with EKS Anywhere on Snow, log in to the AWS Snow Family console and select ‘EKS Anywhere on Snow’ at the time of ordering your AWS Snow Family device. Amazon EKS Anywhere Enterprise Subscription is a pre-requisite for enabling EKS Anywhere on Snow. To learn more about EKS Anywhere Enterprise Subscription, click here.

To learn more about Amazon EKS Anywhere for Snow, see the launch blog post, or visit AWS Snowball documentation, AWS Snowball product page, and AWS Region availability page. 

AWS Snowcone now supports multicast streams, routing, load balancing, and other networking use cases by enabling instances on a Snow device to have direct access to an external network. By providing instances with layer 2 network access without any intermediary translation or filtering, customers gain increased flexibility over the network configuration of their Snow device along with improved network performance, enabling use cases that were previously not possible. 

Prior to this launch, the only network configuration available required that an internal IP address be translated via a Network Address Translation (NAT) to an external elastic IP, which could connect to one of the physical network interfaces on the device. This prevented network configurations that do not function with a NAT, or require multiple physical network interfaces. Now, customers can attach an instance directly to any of the Snow device’s physical network interfaces and have greater flexibility over the network configuration.

To use this feature, customers can create a direct network interface, associate it with one of the Snow device’s physical network interfaces, and then attach it to one of their instances running on the Snow device. Each direct network interface can be assigned a VLAN tag and customers can also optionally customize the MAC address. Multiple direct network interfaces can be associated with a single physical network interface and with a single instance. 

This feature is available for AWS Snowcones ordered on or after January 12, 2021. This feature is available in all AWS Regions where AWS Snowcone is available and at no additional cost. To learn more, visit the AWS Snowcone documentation and the AWS Snowcone product page. Log into the AWS Snow Family console to get started.