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.

My name is Stuart Scott, and I am the AWS content Director here at Cloud Academy. Feel free to connect with me to ask any questions using the details shown on the screen, alternatively you can always get in touch with us here at Cloud Academy by sending an e-mail to support@cloudacademy.com where one of our Cloud experts will reply to your question.

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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