Statuses of Snowball Edge jobs - Amazon Snowball Edge Developer Guide
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Statuses of Snowball Edge jobs

Each Amazon Snowball Edge device job has a status, which changes to denote the current state of the job. This job status information doesn't reflect the health, the current processing state, or the storage used for the associated devices.

To see the status of a job
  1. Log into the Amazon Snow Family Management Console.

  2. On the Job dashboard, choose the job.

  3. Click on your job name within the console.

  4. The Job Status pane will be located near the top and reflects the status of the job.

Amazon Snowball Edge device job statuses
Console Identifier API Identifier Status Description
Job created New Your job has just been created. This status is the only one during which you can cancel a job or its job parts, if the job is an export job.
Preparing appliance PreparingAppliance Amazon is preparing a device for your job.
Exporting InProgress Amazon is exporting your data from Amazon S3 onto a device.
Preparing shipment PreparingShipment Amazon is preparing to ship a device to you. The expected shipping tracking information is provided for customers in the status.
In transit to you InTransitToCustomer The device has been shipped to the address you provided during job creation.
Delivered to you WithCustomer The device has arrived at the address you provided during job creation.
In transit to Amazon InTransitToAWS You have shipped the device back to Amazon.
At sorting facility WithAWSSortingFacility The device for this job is at our internal sorting facility. Any additional processing for import jobs into Amazon S3 will begin soon, typically within 2 days.
At Amazon WithAWS Your shipment has arrived at Amazon. If you're importing data, your import typically begins within a day of its arrival.
Importing InProgress Amazon is importing your data into Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).
Completed Complete Your job or a part of your job has completed successfully.
Canceled Cancelled Your job has been canceled.

Statuses of Snowball Edge cluster jobs

Each cluster has a status, which changes to denote the current general progress state of the cluster. Each individual node of the cluster has its own job status.

This cluster status information doesn't reflect the health, the current processing state, or the storage used for the cluster or its nodes.

Console Identifier API Identifier Status Description
Awaiting Quorum AwaitingQuorum The cluster hasn't been created yet, because there aren't enough nodes to begin processing the cluster request. For a cluster to be created, it must have at least five nodes.
Pending Pending Your cluster has been created, and we're getting its nodes ready to ship out. You can track the status of each node with that node's job status.
Delivered to you InUse At least one node of the cluster is at the address you provided during job creation.
Completed Complete All the nodes of the cluster have been returned to Amazon.
Canceled Cancelled The request to make a cluster was canceled. Cluster requests can only be canceled before they enter the Pending state.