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How to identify a Snowball Edge

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How to identify a Snowball Edge - AWS Snowball Edge Developer Guide

Use the describe-device command to find the device type, then look up the returned value of DeviceType in the table below to determine the configuration.


  snowballEdge describe-device
Example of describe-device output

  {
  "DeviceId" : "JID-206843500001-35-92-20-211-23-06-02-18-24",
  "UnlockStatus" : {
    "State" : "UNLOCKED"
  ...
  "DeviceType" : "V3_5C"
}
DeviceType and Snowball Edge device configurations
DeviceType value Device configuration
V3_5C Snowball Edge compute-optimized with AMD EPYC Gen2 and NVME
V3_5S Snowball Edge storage-optimized 210 TB

For more information about Snowball Edge device configurations, see AWS Snowball Edge device hardware information.

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