This course takes an introductory look at the AWS Snow Family of devices, giving you an understanding of what they are and the problems they are designed to solve. The devices covered by this course include AWS Snowcone, Snowball, Snowmobile.
Learning Objectives
- Define the AWS Snow Family
- Understand the differences between AWS Snowcone, AWS Snowball, and AWS Snowmobile
- Learn when you would use each service in a production environment
- Understand their key features and how to request a snow device
Intended Audience
This course has been designed to help those who are new to the AWS snow family of devices and are potentially looking at them to assist with data import/export requirements for migrating data into and out of AWS.
Prerequisites
To get the most out of this course, you should have an understanding and awareness of the Amazon S3 storage service, as well as a basic understanding of edge computing.
Hello and welcome to this course which will take an introductory look at the AWS Snow Family of devices giving you an understanding of what they are and the problem they are designed to solve. The devices reference the AWS snowcone, the snowball, and the all-impressive AWS Snowmobile.
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This course has been designed to help those who are new to the AWS snow family of devices and are potentially looking at them to assist with data import/export requirements for migrating data into and out of AWS.
The objective of this course is to define the AWS Snow Family, the differences between AWS Snowcone, AWS Snowball, and AWS Snowmobile, and under what circumstances you would use each in a production environment. I will also look at their key features, and how to request a snow device.
As a prerequisite to this course, it would be beneficial to have an understanding and awareness of the Amazon S3 storage service in addition to a basic understanding of edge computing, which effectively allows to you to improve response times by bringing your compute power and data storage closer to the location where it’s needed.
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