What is Amazon Snowball Edge?

Large amounts of storage capacity or compute functionality for devices. This depends on the options you choose when you create your job.

Network adapters with transfer speeds of up to 100 Gbit/second.

Encryption is enforced, protecting your data at rest and in physical transit.

You can import or export data between your local environments and Amazon S3, and physically transport the data with one or more devices without using the internet.

Snowball Edge devices are their own rugged box. The built-in E Ink display changes to show your shipping label when the device is ready to ship.

Snowball Edge devices come with an on-board LCD display that can be used to manage network connections and get service status information.

You can cluster Snowball Edge devices for local storage and compute jobs to achieve data durability across 3 to 16 devices and locally grow or shrink storage on demand.

You can use Amazon EKS Anywhere on Snowball Edge devices for Kubernetes workloads.

Snowball Edge devices have Amazon S3 and Amazon EC2 compatible endpoints available, enabling programmatic use cases.

Snowball Edge devices support the new sbe1, sbe-c, and sbe-g instance types, which you can use to run compute instances on the device using Amazon Machine Images (AMIs).

Snowball Edge supports these data transfer protocols for data migration:

Amazon S3 adapter — Use for programmatic data transfer in to and out of Amazon using the Amazon S3 API for Snowball Edge, which supports a subset of Amazon S3 API operations. In this role, data is transferred to the Snow device by Amazon on your behalf and the device is shipped to you (for an export job), or Amazon ships an empty Snow device to you and you transfer data from your on-premises sources to the device and ship it back to Amazon (for an import job)"

Amazon S3 compatible storage on Snow Family devices — Use to support the data needs of compute services such as Amazon EC2, Amazon EKS Anywhere on Snow, and others. This feature is available on Snowball Edge devices and provides an expanded Amazon S3 API set and features such as increased resiliency with flexible cluster setup for 3 to 16 nodes, local bucket management, and local notifications.

Amazon EC2 – Run compute instances on a Snowball Edge device using the Amazon EC2 compatible endpoint, which supports a subset of the Amazon EC2 API operations. For more information about using Amazon EC2 in Amazon, see Getting started with Amazon EC2 Linux instances.

Amazon EKS Anywhere on Snow – Create and operate Kubernetes clusters on Snow Family devices. See Using Amazon EKS Anywhere on Amazon Snow.

Amazon Lambda powered by Amazon IoT Greengrass – Invoke Lambda functions based on Amazon S3 compatible storage on Snow Family devices storage actions made on an Amazon Snowball Edge device. For more information about using Lambda, see Using Amazon Lambda with an Amazon Snowball Edge and the Amazon Lambda Developer Guide.

Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) – Provide block-level storage volumes for use with EC2-compatible instances. For more information, see Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS).

Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM) – Use this service to securely control access to Amazon resources. For more information, see What is IAM?

Amazon Security Token Service (Amazon STS) – Request temporary, limited-privilege credentials for IAM users or for users that you authenticate (federated users). For more information, see Temporary security credentials in IAM.

Amazon EC2 Systems Manager – Use this service to view and control your infrastructure on Amazon. For more information, see What is Amazon Systems Manager?