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AWS Snowball

The following list details the differences for using this service in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region compared to other AWS regions:

• Users can only select AWS GovCloud (US) as the import or export destination region. The AWS GovCloud (US) Region selection is available only when signed in to AWS GovCloud (US).

• When you create jobs in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region, you can use the following device types:

  • 50 TB Snowball (with 42 TB of usable space)

  • 80 TB Snowball (with 72 TB of usable space)

  • 100 TB Snowball Edge (with 82 TB of usable space)

• Compute functionality (AWS Lambda powered by AWS Greengrass) for the AWS Snowball Edge is not supported.

For more information about Snowball, see the AWS Snowball documentation.

ITAR Boundary

The ITAR boundary defines where customers are allowed to store ITAR-regulated data for this service in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. You must comply with the boundaries in order to maintain ITAR compliance. If you do not have any ITAR-regulated data in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region, this section does not apply to you. The following information identifies the ITAR boundary for this service:

ITAR-Regulated Data Permitted

ITAR-Regulated Data Not Permitted

All data downloaded to the Snowball appliance can contain ITAR-regulated data.

Snowball metadata is not permitted to contain ITAR-regulated data. This includes the naming and configuration data that you enter when creating and managing your Snowball import or export job. For example, do not enter ITAR-regulated data into user input fields describing your job, such as import job name, Amazon S3 bucket name, or Amazon SNS topic name. Snowball generated metadata will not contain ITAR-regulated data.