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What is AWS Snowmobile?AWS Snowmobile is a data transfer service designed to move very large amounts of data, at the Exabyte scale, to Amazon storage services. A Snowmobile is a standard 45-foot shipping container filled with mass-storage AWS Snowball devices, together storing up to 100 PB (petabytes). The container is pulled by a semi-trailer truck. Source: Amazon Snowmobiles can transfer various data types, including image repositories, video libraries, and entire data centers. The Snowmobile service is highly secured, including access control for storage devices, network security measures, 256-bit encryption, and physical security. Physical security measures include GPS tracking for the vehicle, video surveillance, and dedicated security personnel. This is part of our series of articles about AWS big data. In this article:
Benefits of Amazon SnowmobileHere are key benefits of using AWS Snowmobile:
Amazon also provides a smaller scale device for physical data migration—read our guide to AWS Snowball Edge Who Should Use a Snowmobile?Common AWS Snowmobile use cases include: Analyzing big data in the cloud Related content: Read our guide to AWS data analytics Migrating all your data to the cloud Related content: Read our guide to AWS migration Backup data to AWS Related content: Read our guide to AWS backup How Does Snowmobile Work?AWS Snowmobile offers a highly secure, quick, and cost-effective solution supported by AWS personnel. The process starts with an initial assessment. Then Amazon transports the Snowmobile to the source data center, configures the Snowmobile as a network storage target, and works with on-site teams to connect a high-speed network switch from Snowmobile to the local network. The organization can launch the high-speed data transfer process from multiple sources within the data center to the Snowmobile. Once the data is loaded, the Snowmobile is driven back to AWS where the data is imported into Amazon S3 storage. A few more important details about using AWS Snowmobile in your data center:
What is a Snowmobile Job?A Snowmobile job consists of the entire data migration process from beginning to end. It includes the following five main steps:
AWS Snowmobile PricingService pricing is calculated according to the amount of Snowmobile storage capacity used, and the overall duration of the job. AWS offers Snowmobile jobs at $0.005 GB per month. A Snowmobile job starts the moment a Snowmobile vehicle departs an AWS data center. The job ends once all data is ingested into AWS. Related content: Read our guide to AWS Snowball Pricing AWS Storage Tier Optimization with Cloud Volumes ONTAPNetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP, the leading enterprise-grade storage management solution, delivers secure, proven storage management services on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. Cloud Volumes ONTAP capacity can scale into the petabytes, and it supports various use cases such as file services, databases, DevOps or any other enterprise workload, with a strong set of features including high availability, data protection, storage efficiencies, Kubernetes integration, and more. In particular, Cloud Volumes ONTAP assists with lift and shift cloud migration. Download our free guide The 5 Phases for Enterprise Migration to AWS to learn more. Cloud Volumes ONTAP also provides storage efficiency features, including thin provisioning, data compression, and deduplication, reducing the storage footprint and costs by up to 70%. Learn more about how Cloud Volumes ONTAP helps cost savings with these Cloud Volumes ONTAP Storage Efficiency Case Studies.
Which service can be used to quickly and affordably migrate 50TB of data to Amazon S3 for a company with a slow Internet connection?Which service can be used to quickly and affordably migrate 50TB of data to Amazon S3 for a company with a slow Internet connection? AWS Snowball. This is the best solution for this amount of data as the company has a slow internet connection.
Which AWS service is used for migration?AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN) is the primary migration service recommended for lift-and-shift migrations to AWS. Customers currently using Server Migration Service (SMS) are encouraged to switch to Application Migration Service for future migrations.
Which services can be used to move data from on Prem data center to AWS cloud?Storage Gateway lets you seamlessly connect and extend your on-premises applications to AWS Storage. Customers use Storage Gateway to seamlessly replace tape libraries with cloud storage, provide cloud storage-backed file shares, or create a low-latency cache to access data in AWS for on-premises applications.
Which service can be used to migrate up to 100 PB of data to the cloud?AWS Snowmobile is an exabyte-scale data migration solution that packs the equivalent of 1,250 AWS Snowball devices into 45ft long shipping container. AWS Snowmobile is able to transport up to 100PB of data in a single trip, at around a fifth of the cost of transferring data over a high-speed internet connection.
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