Snowball

petabyte-scale — 1 000 TB

Low Cost — It Cost thousands of dollars to transfer 100TB over high speed internet. Snowball can reduce that cost by 1/5th

Speed — It can take 100TB over 100 days to transfer over high speed internet. Snowball can reduce that transfer time by less than a week.

Data is encrypted end-to-end.

Data transfers must be completed within 90 days of the Snowball being prepared.

Can Import and Export from S3.

Sizes:

• 50 TB — 42 TB of usable space
• 80 TB — 72 TB of usable space

Snowball Edge

petabyte-scale — 1 000 TB

Has more storage and has (more) local processing.

• Storage Optimized
• Compute Optimized
• Compute Optimized with GPU

Sizes:

• 100 TB — 83 TB of usable space
• 100 TB Clustered — 45 TB per node

Can be used in groups of 5 to 10 devices