Snowball Family

• Highly-secure, portable devices to collect and process data at the edge, and migrate data into and out of AWS

AWS Snow Family for Data Migrations

Snow Family – Usage Process

1. Request Snowball devices from the AWS console for delivery
2. Install the snowball client / AWS OpsHub on your servers
3. Connect the snowball to your servers and copy files using the client
4. Ship back the device when you’re done (goes to the right AWS facility)
5. Data will be loaded into an S3 bucket
6. Snowball is completely wiped

Snow Family – Edge Computing

• Snowcone & Snowcone SSD (smaller) • 2 CPUs, 4 GB of memory, wired or wireless access • USB-C power using a cord or the optional battery
• Snowball Edge – Compute Optimized • 104 vCPUs, 416 GiB of RAM • Optional GPU (useful for video processing or machine learning) • 28TB NVMe or 42TB HDD usable storage
• Snowball Edge – Storage Optimized • Up to 40 vCPUs, 80 GiB of RAM, 80 TB storage • Object storage clustering available • All: Can run EC2 Instances & AWS Lambda functions (using AWS IoT Greengrass)

Amazon FSx – Overview

• FSx for Windows File Server
  • Supports SMB protocol & Windows NTFS
  • Microsoft Active Directory integration, ACLs, user quotas
  • Can be mounted on Linux EC2 instances
  • Single AZ and MultiAZ
  • Best to use MultiAZ for data replication and failover to different AZ
• FSx for Lustre
  • Scratch File System
    • Data is not replicated (doesn’t persist if file server fails)
    • Usage: short-term processing, optimize costs
  • Persistent File System
    • Data is replicated within same AZ
    • Replace failed files within minutes
    • Usage: long-term processing, sensitive data
• FSx for NetApp ONTAP
  • Managed NetApp ONTAP on AWS
  • File System compatible with NFS, SMB, iSCSI protocol
  • Move workloads running on ONTAP or NAS to AWS
  • Snapshots, replication, low-cost, compression and data de-duplication
  • Point-in-time instantaneous cloning (helpful for testing new workloads)
• FSx for OpenZFS
  • Managed OpenZFS file system on AWS
  • File System compatible with NFS (v3, v4, v4.1, v4.2)
  • Move workloads running on ZFS to AWS
  • Snapshots, compression and low-cost
  • Point-in-time instantaneous cloning (helpful for testing new workloads)

AWS Storage Gateway

• Bridge between on-premises data and cloud data
• Use cases:
  • disaster recovery
  • backup & restore
  • tiered storage
  • on-premises cache & low-latency files access