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AWS Snowball resources

Notice of discontinuation

Effective November 12, 2024, AWS will discontinue previous generation AWS Snowball devices and both Snowcone devices (HDD and SDD). We will continue to support existing customers using these end-of-life devices until November 12, 2025. The latest generation AWS Snowball devices are available for all customers. For more information on the specific devices and alternatives, read the blog.

What's New with Snowball

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AWS OpsHub

AWS OpsHub is a graphical user interface you can use to manage AWS Snowball devices. AWS OpsHub makes it easy to setup and manage Snowball devices enabling you to rapidly deploy edge computing workloads and simplify data migration to the cloud. With just a few clicks in OpsHub, you have the full functionality of the Snowball of devices at your fingertips. You can unlock and configure devices, drag-and-drop data to devices, launch applications, and monitor device metrics.

AWS OpsHub documentation

AWS OpsHub

Operating System
AWS OpsHub
Windows 7 or higher
Mac OS X 10.10 or higher
Linux (Ubuntu version 14 or higher, and Fedora version 24 or higher)

AWS Snowball Edge Client

The Snowball Edge Client is a terminal application for Snowball devices that you can use to unlock, set up, and administer devices.

We recommend using the latest Linux or Mac clients which support the Advanced Encryption Standard New Instructions (AES-NI) extension to the x86 instruction set architecture. This improves speeds for encrypting or decrypting data during transfers between the Snowball devices and your Mac or Linux workstations.

Using the Snowball Edge Client documentation

AWS Snowball Edge Client

Operating System
AWS Snowball Edge Client
Windows 7 or higher
Mac OS X 10.10 or higher
Linux (Ubuntu version 12 or higher, and RHEL version 6 or higher)

Documentation

AWS SNOWBALL EDGE USER GUIDE

Provides a conceptual overview of how to use a AWS Snowball Edge device, and includes guidance for local storage and compute, clustering, importing and exporting data into HAQM S3, and other features.
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API REFERENCE

Describes all the job and shipping API operations for Snowball devices in detail. Also provides sample requests, responses, and errors for the supported web services protocols.
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Webinars

AWS Snow Family Overview
Migrating Data to AWS
Computing at the Edge
Offline Data Transfer

Videos

AWS on Air Pi Day 2022 - Accelerate Your Storage Migration
AWS re:Invent 2021 - Accelerate physical tape data migration to AWS
AWS re:Invent 2020 - Optimize your data migration with AWS Snowcone and AWS Snowball Edge
AWS re:Invent 2020: Edge computing innovation with AWS Snowcone and AWS Snowball Edge

Videos

Moving Massive Amounts of Data
AWS Snowball Edge Unboxing and Unlocking
Copy Data to AWS Snowball Edge using HAQM S3
Copying Windows Data to AWS Snowball with NFS

Videos

Pushing Physical Limits
Disaster Scenario Solutions
Datacenter Shutdown
Capturing Data in Remote Sites
Data Migration & Edge Computing

Blog Posts

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