Step 2: Choose your compute and storage options - Amazon Snowcone User Guide
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Step 2: Choose your compute and storage options

Choose the hardware specifications for your Snow Family device, which of your Amazon EC2-compatible instances to include on it, how data will be stored, and pricing.

To choose your device's compute and storage options

  1. In the Snow devices section, choose the Snow Family device to order.

    Note

    Some Snow Family devices might not be available depending on the Amazon Web Services Region you are ordering from and the job type you chose.

    List of Snow device options showing compute, memory, and storage of each.

  2. In the Snowcone power supply section, choose I will provide my own power supply and Ethernet cable. For information about power supplies, see Amazon Snowcone Power Supply and Accessories.

  3. In the Choose your pricing option section, from the Choose your pricing option menu, choose the type of pricing to apply to this job. For device pricing, see Amazon Snowcone Pricing.

  4. In the Select the storage type section, make a choice according to your need:

    • NFS based data transfer: Use Network File System (NFS) based data transfer to drag and drop files from your computer into Amazon S3 buckets on Snow Family devices.

    Warning

    NFS based data transfer doesn't support the S3 adapter. If you proceed with NFS based data transfer, you must mount the NFS share to transfer objects. Using the Amazon CLI to transfer objects will fail.

    See Using NFS for Offline Data Transfer in the Amazon Snowcone User Guide for more information.

  5. If you selected NFS based data transfer as the storage type, in the Select your S3 buckets section, do one or more of the following to select one or more S3 buckets:

    1. Choose the S3 bucket that you want to use in the S3 bucket name list.

    2. In the Search for an item field, enter all or part a bucket name to filter the list of available buckets on your entry, then choose the bucket.

    3. Choose the Create a new S3 bucket to create a new S3 bucket. The new bucket name appears in the Bucket name list. Choose it.

    You can include one or more S3 buckets. These buckets appear on your device as local S3 buckets.

    Choose your NFS storage panel showing Create a new S3 bucket button, search filed, and S3 bucket names.

  6. In the Compute using EC2-compatible instances - optional section, choose Amazon EC2-compatible AMIs from your account to include on the device. Or, in the search field, enter all or part the name of an AMI to filter the list of available AMIs on your entry, then choose the AMI.

    For more information, see Creating a Job with Compute Instances in this guide.

    This feature incurs additional charges. For more information, see Amazon Snowball Edge Pricing.

  7. Choose the Next button.