Shutting down the device with Amazon OpsHub - Amazon Snowball Edge Developer Guide
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Shutting down the device with Amazon OpsHub

Follow these steps to use Amazon OpsHub to shut down your Snow device.

Important

We highly recommend that you suspend all activities on the device before you shut down the device. Shutting down a device stops running instances and interrupts any writing to Amazon S3 buckets on the device.

To shut down a device

  1. On the Amazon OpsHub dashboard, find your device under Devices. Then choose the device to open the device details page.

  2. Choose the Device Power menu, then choose Shutdown. A dialog box appears.

    Device details page showing Device Power menu open with Shutdown chosen.

  3. In the dialog box, choose Shutdown. Your device starts to shut down.

    Shutdown device window showing Shutdown button at lower right.

    While the device shuts down, the LCD screen displays a message indicating the device is shutting down.

    Shutdown message on LCD screen.