Using the Snowball Edge Client
Following, you can find information about how to get and use the Snowball Edge client
with your AWS Snowball Edge device. The Snowball Edge client is a standalone terminal application that
you run on your local server to unlock the device and get credentials, logs, and status
information. You can also use the client for administrative tasks for a cluster. While using
the Snowball Edge client, you can get additional support information by running the
snowballEdge help
command.
When you read and write data to the AWS Snowball Edge device, you use the Amazon S3 interface or the file interface.
In January 2018, there was a feature update for clusters, making them leaderless. The cluster update is backward-compatible with older clusters.
Downloading and Installing the Snowball Edge Client
You can download and install the Snowball Edge client from AWS Snowball
resources
You can download and install the Snowball Edge client from
AWS Snowball Edge Resources
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Microsoft Windows – When the client has been installed, you can run it from any directory without any additional preparation.
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Linux – The Snowball Edge client must be run from the
~/snowball-client-linux-
directory. The Snowball Edge client is only supported on 64-bit Linux distributions.build_number
/bin/ -
macOS – The
install.sh
script copies folders from the Snowball Edge client .tar file to the/usr/local/bin/snowball
directory. If you run this script, you can then run the Snowball Edge client from any directory if/usr/local/bin
is a path in yourbash_profile
. You can verify your path using theecho $PATH
command.