AWS Snow Family
The AWS Snow Family helps customers who need to run operations in austere, non-data center environments, and in locations which lack consistent network connectivity. The Snow Family (comprised of AWS Snowcone, Snowball, and AWS Snowmobile) offers a number of physical devices and capacity profiles, most with built-in computing capabilities. These services help physically transport up to exabytes of data in to and out of AWS. Snow Family devices are owned and managed by AWS and integrate with AWS security, monitoring, storage management, and computing capabilities.
Snowcone
Snowcone is the smallest member of the AWS Snow Family of edge computing and data transfer devices. Snowcone is portable, rugged, and secure. You can use Snowcone to collect, process, and move data to AWS, either offline by shipping the device, or online with AWS DataSync.
With Snowcone, you pay only for the use of the device and for
data transfer out of AWS. Data transferred offline into AWS with
Snowcone does not incur any transfer fees. For online data
transfer pricing with DataSync, please refer to the
DataSync
pricing page
For Snowcone or Snowcone SSD, you pay a service fee per job, which includes five days of device use and a per-day fee for every additional day you use the device before sending it back to AWS. For jobs lasting longer than 30 days, you can select the monthly rental option and keep the device over the long term. For high-volume deployments, contact your AWS sales team.
For pricing details, see
AWS Snowcone Pricing
Snowball
Snowball is a data migration and edge computing device that comes in two device options: Compute Optimized and Storage Optimized.
Snowball Edge Storage Optimized devices provide 40 vCPUs of compute capacity coupled with 80 TB of usable block or Amazon S3-compatible object storage. It is well suited for local storage and large-scale data transfer. Snowball Edge Compute Optimized devices provide 52 vCPUs, 42 TB of usable block or object storage, and an optional GPU for use cases such as advanced machine learning (ML) and full motion video analysis in disconnected environments. Customers can use these two options for data collection, ML and processing, and storage in environments with intermittent connectivity (such as manufacturing, industrial, and transportation) or in extremely remote locations (such as military or maritime operations) before shipping devices back to AWS. These devices may also be rack mounted and clustered together to build larger, temporary installations.
Snowball has three pricing elements to consider: usage, device type, and term of use.
First, consider your planned use case. Is it data transfer only, or will you be running compute on the device? You can use either device for data transfer or computing, but it is more cost-effective to use a Snowball Edge Storage Optimized for data transfer jobs.
Second, choose your device (either Snowball Edge Storage Optimized or Snowball Edge Compute Optimized). You can also select the option to run GPU instances on Snowball Edge Compute Optimized for edge applications.
For on-demand use, you pay a service fee per data transfer job, which includes 10 days of on-site Snowball Edge device usage. Shipping days, including the day the device is received and the day it is shipped back to AWS, are not counted toward the 10 days. After the 10 days, you pay a low per-day fee for each additional day you keep the device.
For one-year or three-year commitments, please contact your sales team; you cannot make this selection in the AWS Management Console.
Data transferred into AWS does not incur any data transfer fees, and standard pricing applies for data stored in the AWS Cloud.
For pricing details, see
AWS Snowball Pricing
