# GetSnowballUsage
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**Note**  
 Amazon Snowball Edge is no longer available to new customers. New customers should explore [Amazon DataSync](https://aws.amazon.com/datasync/) for online transfers, [Amazon Data Transfer Terminal](https://aws.amazon.com/data-transfer-terminal/) for secure physical transfers, or Amazon Partner solutions. For edge computing, explore [Amazon Outposts](https://aws.amazon.com/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
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```
{
   "SnowballLimit": number,
   "SnowballsInUse": number
}
```

## Response Elements
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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](#API_GetSnowballUsage_ResponseSyntax) **   <a name="Snowball-GetSnowballUsage-response-SnowballLimit"></a>
The service limit for number of Snow devices this account can have at once. The default service limit is 1 (one).  
Type: Integer

 ** [SnowballsInUse](#API_GetSnowballUsage_ResponseSyntax) **   <a name="Snowball-GetSnowballUsage-response-SnowballsInUse"></a>
The number of Snow devices that this account is currently using.  
Type: Integer

## Errors
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For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see [Common Error Types](CommonErrors.md).

## See Also
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For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific Amazon SDKs, see the following:
+  [Amazon Command Line Interface V2](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/goto/cli2/snowball-2016-06-30/GetSnowballUsage) 
+  [Amazon SDK for .NET V4](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/goto/DotNetSDKV4/snowball-2016-06-30/GetSnowballUsage) 
+  [Amazon SDK for C\$1\$1](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/goto/SdkForCpp/snowball-2016-06-30/GetSnowballUsage) 
+  [Amazon SDK for Go v2](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/goto/SdkForGoV2/snowball-2016-06-30/GetSnowballUsage) 
+  [Amazon SDK for Java V2](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/goto/SdkForJavaV2/snowball-2016-06-30/GetSnowballUsage) 
+  [Amazon SDK for JavaScript V3](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/goto/SdkForJavaScriptV3/snowball-2016-06-30/GetSnowballUsage) 
+  [Amazon SDK for Kotlin](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/goto/SdkForKotlin/snowball-2016-06-30/GetSnowballUsage) 
+  [Amazon SDK for PHP V3](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/goto/SdkForPHPV3/snowball-2016-06-30/GetSnowballUsage) 
+  [Amazon SDK for Python](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/goto/boto3/snowball-2016-06-30/GetSnowballUsage) 
+  [Amazon SDK for Ruby V3](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/goto/SdkForRubyV3/snowball-2016-06-30/GetSnowballUsage)