In this final lecture, I want to summarize some of the key points from each of the previous lectures of this course.

I started off by looking at what the snowcone was exactly and some of its key features, during this lecture I covered the following points: 

• The AWS Snowcone is a part of the AWS snow family of devices
• It’s used to transfer data into and out of AWS
• Allow you to run operations and workloads at the edge 
• It’s relatively small in size, easy enough for someone to put into a backpack
• It comes with 2 vCPUs, 4GB of memory, and 8 Terabytes of usable HDD storage
• It can run EC2 instances and also support AWS IoT Greengrass.  
• Power is supplied via USB-C connection with optional battery support
• It supports Windows, Linux, MAC-OS, and NFS File Systems 
• It comes equipped with the AWS DataSync agent for on-line data transfer
• It has a tough and rugged enclosure
• It can operate under extreme conditions and temperatures
• It comes fitted with tamper-resistant mechanisms 
• Data is encrypted using keys backed by KMS
• Data is erased from the snowcone meeting NIST standards

I then gave a few examples of use cases that the snowcone has been designed to fulfill, and these included:

• Portable Edge Computing
• Edge Data Transfer
• and Storage aggregation

And finally, I gave a run-through of the typical lifecycle of your AWS snowcone, from the initial request to data deletion.  These steps can be summarized as follows:

1. Select the type of job you required
2. Enter the job details specifying S3 buckets, address, roles, etc
3. The snowcone is then delivered to the address specified 
4. Unlock and configure the snowcone and perform your edge computing needs or data transfer requirements
5. Prepare the snowcone for its return to AWS to transfer data, or use AWS DataSync to copy data on-line
6. When AWS receives the snowcone any requested data transfers will be carried out
7. The data will then be deleted from the snowcone 

That now brings me to the end of this lecture and to the end of this course, and so you should now have a greater understanding of the AWS Snowcone how can be used to provide portable edge computing and data transfer, in addition to some of its general use cases.

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