Step 1: Choose a job type - AWS Snowball Edge Developer Guide

Step 1: Choose a job type

The first step in creating a job is to determine the type of job that you need and to start planning it using the AWS Snow Family Management Console.

To choose your job type

  1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console, and open the AWS Snow Family Management Console. If this is your first time creating a job in this AWS Region, you will see the AWS Snow Family page. Otherwise you will see the list of existing jobs.

  2. If this is your first job, choose Order an AWS Snow Family device. If you're expecting multiple jobs to migrate over 500 TB of data, choose Create your large data migration plan greater than 500 TB. Otherwise, choose Create Job in the left navigation bar. Choose Next step to open the Plan your job page.

  3. In the Job name section, provide a name for your job in the Job name box.

  4. Depending on your need, choose one of the following job types:

    • Import into Amazon S3 – Choose this option to have AWS ship an empty Snowball Edge device to you. You connect the device to your local network and run the Snowball Edge client. You copy data onto the device using NFS share or the S3 adapter, ship it back to AWS, and your data is uploaded to AWS.

    • Export from Amazon S3 – Choose this option to export data from your Amazon S3 bucket to your device. AWS loads your data on the device and ships it to you. You connect the device to your local network and run the Snowball Edge client. You copy data from your device to your servers. When you are done, ship the device to AWS, and your data is erased from the device.

    • Local compute and storage only – Perform compute and storage workloads on the device without transferring data.

    Choose job type panel showing Import into Amazon S3 job type selected.

  5. Choose Next to continue.