AWS Snawball

Question 1

What is snowball?

Answer 1

They are a set of three products that enable data to be migrated from your on-prem to AWS,

• Snowball
• Snowball edge
• Snowmobile

Question 2

What is the max size of data a snowball can deal with?

Answer 2

50TB or 80TB

Question 3

When should I use a Snowball?

Answer 3

When data is over 10TB

Question 4

When would I need to use a Snowball edge?

Answer 4

When the data been uploaded to the Snowball need to be analyzed in some way, snowball edge enables you to perform code execution using lambda functions.

Question 5

What different version of snowball edge is there?

Answer 5

• Storage Optimised
• Computer Optimised
• GPU Optimised

Question 6

What is the max storage for a snowball edge?

Answer 6

100TB

Question 7

What is Snowball mobile?

Answer 7

A truck for 10PB up to 100PB

Question 8

When would I use a snowball mobile?

Answer 8

Data centre migrations

Question 9

I have 1PB of data and I wnat to ship it to AWS, what is the best method?

Answer 9

Number of snowballs, data is too large for a single snowball, too small for snowball mobile (10PB).

Question 10

I need to encrypt my data using my keys and my version of AES 256 when pushing 5PB of dat to AWS, what is my best option?

Answer 10

You will need to use a number of snowball edges,

• Data is too large for a single snowball edge
• Use edge to encrypt with lambda
• Data size is too small for Snowball mobile.

Question 11

I have 1PB of data in AWS and I wnat to migrate it to my on-prem to use with a new processing system, how cna I achieve this?

Answer 11

You can export data from both S3 and Compute

Question 12

What is the process to export data from S3?

Answer 12

From the console, you provide your name and address and the S3 buckets you wnat have exported

Question 13

How is encryption handled on a snowball?

Answer 13

KMS is used and the keys are kept on KMS, you can use managed or customer keys.