GetSnowballUsage - Amazon Snowball Edge
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GetSnowballUsage

Note

Effective November 7, 2025, Amazon Snowball Edge will only be available to existing customers. If you would like to use Amazon Snowball Edge, sign up prior to that date. New customers should explore Amazon DataSync for online transfers, Amazon Data Transfer Terminal for secure physical transfers, or Amazon Partner solutions. For edge computing, explore Amazon Outposts.

Returns information about the Snowball Edge service limit for your account, and also the number of Snow devices your account has in use.

The default service limit for the number of Snow devices that you can have at one time is 1. If you want to increase your service limit, contact Amazon Web Services Support.

Response Syntax

{ "SnowballLimit": number, "SnowballsInUse": number }

Response Elements

If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

SnowballLimit

The service limit for number of Snow devices this account can have at once. The default service limit is 1 (one).

Type: Integer

SnowballsInUse

The number of Snow devices that this account is currently using.

Type: Integer

Errors

For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific Amazon SDKs, see the following: