Order Amazon S3 compatible storage on Snowball Edge - Amazon Snowball Edge Developer Guide
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Order Amazon S3 compatible storage on Snowball Edge

Ordering a device for Amazon S3 compatible storage on Snowball Edge is very similar to the process for ordering a Snowball Edge. To order, see Creating a job to order a Snowball Edge device in this guide and keep these items in mind during the ordering process:

  • For Choose a job type, choose Local compute and storage only.

  • Under Snow devices, choose Snowball Edge Compute Optimized

  • Under Select the storage type, select Amazon S3 compatible storage on Snowball Edge.

  • For a standalone device, under Storage capacity, choose Single device and then select your desired storage amount.

  • For a cluster, under Storage capacity select Cluster and then select your desired storage capacity and fault tolerance.