AWS Snowball Edge Edge quotas

For security purposes, jobs using an AWS Snowball Edge device must be completed within 360 days of being prepared. If you need to keep one or more devices for longer than 360 days, see Updating the SSL certificate on Snowball Edge devices. Otherwise, after 360 days, the device becomes locked, can no longer be accessed, and must be returned. If the AWS Snowball Edge device becomes locked during an import job, we can still transfer the existing data on the device into Amazon S3.

AWS Snowball Edge Edge supports server-side encryption with Amazon S3-managed encryption keys (SSE-S3) and server-side encryption with AWS Key Management Service managed keys (SSE-KMS). Amazon S3 compatible storage on Snowball Edge supports SSE-C for local compute and storage jobs. For more information, see Protecting data using server-side encryption in the Amazon Simple Storage Service User Guide.

If you're using an AWS Snowball Edge device to import data, and you need to transfer more data than will fit on a single Snowball Edge Edge device, create additional jobs. Each export job can use multiple Snowball Edge Edge devices.

The default service limit for the number of Snowball Edge Edge devices you can have at one time is 1 per account, per AWS Region. If you want to increase your service limit or create a cluster job, contact AWS Support.

Metadata for objects transferred to a device is not persisted. The only metadata that remains the same is filename and filesize. All other metadata is set as in the following example:

-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root [filesize] Dec 31 1969 [path/filename]

Files must be in a static state while being written. Files that are modified while being transferred are not imported into Amazon S3.

Jumbo frames are not supported—that is, Ethernet frames with more than 1500 bytes of payload.

When selecting what data to export, keep in mind that objects with trailing slashes in their names (/ or \) are not transferred. Before exporting any objects with trailing slashes, update their names to remove the slash.

When using multipart data transfer, the maximum part size is 2 GiB.

AWS will not ship a Snowball Edge Edge device to a post office box.

AWS will not ship a Snowball Edge Edge device between non-US Regions—for example, from EU (Ireland) to EU (Frankfurt), or to Asia Pacific (Sydney).

Moving a Snowball Edge Edge device to an address outside of the country specified when the job was created is not allowed and is a violation of the AWS service terms.

The AWS Snowball Edge device must not be compromised. Except for opening the three doors on the front, back, and top, or to add and replace the optional air filter, don't open the AWS Snowball Edge device for any reason.

The device must not be physically damaged. You can prevent damage by closing the three doors on the Snowball Edge Edge device until the latches make an audible clicking sound.

The E Ink display on the Snowball Edge Edge device must be visible. It must also show the return label that was automatically generated when you finished transferring your data onto the AWS Snowball Edge device.