Effective November 12, 2024, AWS will discontinue previous generation AWS Snowball devices and both Snowcone devices (HDD and SDD). We will continue to support existing customers using these end-of-life devices until November 12, 2025. The latest generation AWS Snowball devices are available for all customers. For more information on the specific devices and alternatives, read the blog.
AWS Snowball resources
What's New with Snowball
AWS OpsHub
AWS OpsHub is a graphical user interface you can use to manage AWS Snowball devices. AWS OpsHub makes it easy to setup and manage Snowball devices enabling you to rapidly deploy edge computing workloads and simplify data migration to the cloud. With just a few clicks in OpsHub, you have the full functionality of the Snowball of devices at your fingertips. You can unlock and configure devices, drag-and-drop data to devices, launch applications, and monitor device metrics.
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| Linux (Ubuntu version 14 or higher, and Fedora version 24 or higher) | Download (Signature) |
AWS Snowball Edge Client
The Snowball Edge Client is a terminal application for Snowball devices that you can use to unlock, set up, and administer devices.
We recommend using the latest Linux or Mac clients which support the Advanced Encryption Standard New Instructions (AES-NI) extension to the x86 instruction set architecture. This improves speeds for encrypting or decrypting data during transfers between the Snowball devices and your Mac or Linux workstations.
Featured Content
Evolving at the Edge with the AWS Snow Family
AWS Snowball Edge Data Migration Guide
This document provides best practices for AWS Snowball Edge bulk data transfers between on-premises data centers and the AWS Cloud
Novetta Uses AWS Snowball Edge for disaster response
Novetta delivers IoT and Machine Learning to the edge for disaster response with Snowball Edge
Documentation
Webinars
AWS Snow Family Overview
Migrating Data to AWS
Computing at the Edge
Offline Data Transfer
Videos
AWS on Air Pi Day 2022 - Accelerate Your Storage Migration
AWS re:Invent 2021 - Accelerate physical tape data migration to AWS
AWS re:Invent 2020 - Optimize your data migration with AWS Snowcone and AWS Snowball Edge
AWS re:Invent 2020: Edge computing innovation with AWS Snowcone and AWS Snowball Edge
Moving Massive Amounts of Data
CNBC profile: How the AWS Snowball helps customers move massive amounts of data to the cloud
AWS Snowball Edge Unboxing and Unlocking
Walk through the end-to-end process of receiving, opening, powering-on, unlocking, and even attaching a Snowball device to a local network
Copy Data to AWS Snowball Edge using Amazon S3
Learn how to copy data to a Snowball Edge device using the Amazon Simple Storage Service S3 interface
Copying Windows Data to AWS Snowball with NFS
Learn how to copy data to AWS Snowball using the NFS client on Windows
Pushing Physical Limits
From Deserts to the battlefield: AWS Snowball Edge brings technology to the tactical edge
Disaster Scenario Solutions
Improving Information and Communications in a Disaster Scenario with AWS Snowball Edge
Datacenter Shutdown
How Wazee Digital used Snowball to migrate into AWS, saving 100x over traditional data transfer methods and exchanging two datacenters for infinite scale
Capturing Data in Remote Sites
Snowball assisted in a higely ambitious video project that required filming scenes all around the globe. Snowball not only ensured safe data transfers but was also cost-efficient, fast and secure
Data Migration & Edge Computing
AWS re:Invent 2019: Data migration and edge computing with the AWS Snowball
Blog Posts
Free Training
AWS Snowball Edge Getting Started
This intermediate, e-learning course is about 1.5 hours. It covers common use cases for AWS Snowball Edge to determine if this is the right choice for a specific project. The self-paced course addresses the Snowball Edge device types and job types for your use cases as well as Snowball Edge physical features, security features, and hardware resource capabilities.
AWS Snowball Edge Logistics and Planning
This 1 hr 25 min course will help customers learn about the AWS Regions where Snowball Edge device is available, time frames for receiving and using the device, and how Snowball Edge pricing works. The course will also cover the customer requirements for networking and infrastructure and data set/data transfer activities.
AWS Snowball Edge: Using AWS Snowball Edge
This course teaches learners how to use the device to transfer data using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI). The course also teaches how to complete a Snowball Edge job and ship the device back to AWS.
Learn more about AWS Snowball from our FAQs page