Document History for Amazon Snowcone User Guide

Include custom AMIs when ordering devices

Custom Amazon Machine Images can now be preloaded while ordering Amazon Snow Family jobs. For more information, see Using Amazon EC2 on Snowcone.

November 15, 2023

New Amazon Web Services Region supported

Amazon Snowcone SSD devices are now available in Israel (Tel Aviv) Amazon Web Services Region. Pickup information for this region was added. For more information, see Amazon Snow Family endpoints and quotas in the Amazon Web Services General Reference. For information on shipping, see Shipping Considerations for Amazon Snowcone.

August 25, 2023

New Amazon Web Services Region supported

Snowcone devices are now available in Europe (Paris) Amazon Web Services Region. For more information, see Amazon Snow Family endpoints and quotas in the Amazon Web Services General Reference. For information on shipping, see Shipping Considerations for Amazon Snowcone.

June 29, 2022

New Snowcone troubleshooting tips

Amazon Snowcone troubleshooting tips section added similar to Snowball Edge. For new section added, see Troubleshooting Snowcone Issues.

April 15, 2022

New Amazon Web Services Region supported

Amazon Snowcone is now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai), and Brazil Regions. Pickup information for EU, Canada, Singapore, and Brazil were added. For more information, see Amazon Snow Family endpoints and quotas in the Amazon Web Services General Reference.

February 23, 2022

New Amazon Web Services Region supported

Amazon Snowcone is now available in the Europe (London) Region. For more information, see Amazon Snow Family endpoints and quotas in the Amazon Web Services General Reference.

January 5, 2022

Support for Network Time Protocol (NTP) server configuration

Snowcone devices now support external Network Time Protocol (NTP) server configuration.

November 16, 2021

New Amazon Web Services Region supported

Amazon Snowcone SSD is now available in the US West (N. California), US East (Ohio), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and Asia Pacific (Sydney) Regions. For more information, see Amazon Snow Family endpoints and quotas in the Amazon Web Services General Reference.

November 3, 2021

New Amazon Web Services Region supported

Amazon Snowcone is now available in the US West (N. California), US East (Ohio) and South America (São Paulo) Regions. For more information, see Amazon Snow Family endpoints and quotas in the Amazon Web Services General Reference.

September 29, 2021

New Amazon Web Services Region supported

Amazon Snowcone is now available in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Regions. For more information, see Amazon Snow Family endpoints and quotas in the Amazon Web Services General Reference.

August 26, 2021

Support for offline data export from Amazon S3 using Snowcone devices

You can now request Amazon to export your Amazon S3 data by transferring it to Snowcone devices which are then physically shipped to your location. For more information, see How Import and Export Jobs Work.

August 4, 2021

Introducing Amazon Snow Device Management

Snow Device Management allows you to manage your Amazon Snowcone device and local Amazon services remotely. All Snowcone devices support Snow Device Management, and it comes preinstalled on new devices in most Amazon Web Services Regions where Snowcone is available. For more information, see Using Amazon Snow Device Management to Manage Devices.

August 4, 2021

New Amazon Web Services Region supported

Amazon Snowcone is now available in the Canada (Central) Region. For more information, see Amazon Snow Family endpoints and quotas in the Amazon Web Services General Reference.

April 28, 2021

New Amazon Web Services Region supported

Amazon Snowcone is now available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region. For more information, see Amazon Snow Family endpoints and quotas in the Amazon Web Services General Reference.

March 24, 2021

Support for direct network interface

Amazon Snowcone now adds direct network interface (DNI) configuration, an advanced network feature that enables use cases like multicast streams, routing, and load balancing. For more information, see Network Configuration for Compute Instances.

January 12, 2021

New Amazon Web Services Region supported

Amazon Snowcone is now available in the Europe (Frankfurt) Region. For more information, see Amazon Snow Family endpoints and quotas in the Amazon Web Services General Reference.

November 18, 2020

New Amazon Web Services Region supported

Amazon Snowcone is now available in the Europe (Ireland) Region. For more information, see Amazon Snow Family endpoints and quotas in the Amazon Web Services General Reference.

September 16, 2020

Introducing Amazon Snowcone

Amazon Snowcone is a portable, rugged, and secure device for edge computing and data transfer. You can use Amazon Snowcone to collect, process, and move data to Amazon, either offline by shipping the device to Amazon, or online using Amazon DataSync. For more information, see What Is Amazon Snowcone?

June 17, 2020