AWS Snowmobile

AWS Snowmobile is associate degree Exabyte-scale knowledge transfer service won’t to move very giant amounts of information to AWS. you'll be able to transfer up to 100PB per Snowmobile, a 45-foot long ruggedized shipping instrumentality, force by a semi-trailer truck. Snowmobile makes it straightforward to makeover huge volumes of information to the cloud, together with video libraries, image repositories, or maybe an entire knowledge centre migration. Transferring knowledge with Snowmobile is safer, quick and price effective.

After associate degree initial assessment, a Snowmobile are transported to your knowledge centre and AWS personnel can set up it for you thus it is accessed as a network storage target. once your Snowmobile is on web site, AWS personnel can work along with your team to attach a removable, high-speed network switch from Snowmobile to your native network and you'll be able to begin your high-speed knowledge transfer from any variety of sources at intervals your knowledge centre to the Snowmobile. once your knowledge is loaded, Snowmobile is driven back to AWS wherever your knowledge is foreign into Amazon S3 or Amazon ice mass.

Snowmobile uses multiple layers of security to assist defend your knowledge together with dedicated security personnel, GPS following, alarm observance, 24/7 video police work, associate degreed an elective escort security vehicle whereas in transit. All knowledge is encrypted with 256-bit secret writing keys you manage through the AWS Key Management Service (KMS) and designed for security and full chain-of-custody of your knowledge.

FAST TRANSFER EVEN AT large SCALE

Even with high-speed net connections, it will take decades to transfer extraordinarily giant amounts of information. With Snowmobile, you'll move a hundred petabytes of information in as very little as a couple of weeks, and transport time. that very same transfer may take quite twenty years to accomplish over an instantaneous connect line with a 1Gbps association.

STRONG secret writing

Your knowledge is encrypted with keys that you simply offer before it's written to Snowmobile. All knowledge is encrypted with 256-bit secret writing and you'll manage your secret writing keys with AWS Key Management Service (KMS). secret writing keys utilized by encrypting servers on the Snowmobile square measure ne'er written to disk. ought to power be removed for any reason, the keys square measure firmly erased.

RUGGED, DURABLE, AND safer

Snowmobile is tamper-resistant, waterproof and temperature controlled. the info instrumentality is simply operated by AWS personnel and physical access is proscribed via security access hardware controls. Snowmobile is protected by 24/7 video police work and alarm observation, GPS pursuit and will optionally be escorted by a security vehicle whereas in transit.

CUSTOMIZED FOR YOUR wants

As physical sites will have completely different migration needs, AWS can work with you to assist guarantee all of your wants square measure factored in before Snowmobile arrives on website.

MASSIVELY climbable

One Snowmobile will transport up to 1 hundred petabytes of information in an exceedingly single trip, the equivalent of victimization regarding one,250 AWS Snowball devices.

EASY knowledge RETRIEVAL

Many organizations square measure involved that when they need affected all their knowledge to the cloud that it'll be each pricy and long to retrieve the info if required. Snowball and Snowmobile supply all customers a quick and cheap thanks to guarantee knowledge is quickly transferred each into and out of AWS.