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/). 

# Using the Amazon CLI and API operations on Snowball Edge device
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When using the Amazon Command Line Interface (Amazon CLI) or API operations to issue IAM, Amazon S3 and Amazon EC2 commands on Snowball Edge, you must specify the `region` as "`snow`." You can do this using `Amazon configure` or within the command itself, as in the following examples.

```
aws configure --profile ProfileName
Amazon Access Key ID [None]: defgh
Amazon Secret Access Key [None]: 1234567
Default region name [None]: snow
Default output format [None]: json
```

Or

```
aws s3 ls --endpoint http://192.0.2.0:8080 --region snow --profile ProfileName
```