Step 1: Choose a job type
The first step in creating a job is to determine the type of job that you need and to start planning it using the Amazon Snow Family Management Console.
To choose your job type
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Sign in to the Amazon Web Services Management Console, and open the Amazon Snow Family Management Console
. If this is your first time creating a job in this Amazon Web Services Region, you will see the Amazon Snow Family page. Otherwise you will see the list of existing jobs. -
If this is your first job, choose Order an Amazon Snow Family device. If you're expecting multiple jobs to migrate over 500 TB of data, choose Create your large data migration plan greater than 500 TB. Otherwise, choose Create Job in the left navigation bar. Choose Next step to open the Plan your job page.
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In the Job name section, provide a name for your job in the Job name box.
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Depending on your need, choose one of the following job types:
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Import into Amazon S3 – Choose this option to have Amazon ship an empty Snowball Edge device to you. You connect the device to your local network and run the Snowball Edge client. You copy data onto the device using NFS share or the S3 adapter, ship it back to Amazon, and your data is uploaded to Amazon.
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Export from Amazon S3 – Choose this option to export data from your Amazon S3 bucket to your device. Amazon loads your data on the device and ships it to you. You connect the device to your local network and run the Snowball Edge client. You copy data from your device to your servers. When you are done, ship the device to Amazon, and your data is erased from the device.
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Local compute and storage only – Perform compute and storage workloads on the device without transferring data.
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Choose Next to continue.