Using an AWS Snowball Edge Device
Following, you can find an overview of the AWS Snowball Edge device. Snowball Edge is a physically rugged device protected by AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) that you use for local storage and compute, or to transfer data between your on-premises servers and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).
For information about unlocking an AWS Snowball Edge device, see Using the Snowball Edge Client.
When the device first arrives, inspect it for damage or obvious tampering.
Warning
If you notice anything that looks suspicious about the device, don't connect it to
your internal network. Instead, contact AWS Support
The following image shows what the AWS Snowball Edge device looks like.
The device has three doors—a front, a back, and a top—that all can be opened by latches. The top door contains the power cable for the device. The other two doors can be opened and slid inside the device so that they're out of the way while you're using it. By opening the doors, you get access to the LCD E Ink display embedded in the front side of the device, and the power and network ports in the back.
After your device arrives and is powered on, you're ready to use it.
Topics
- Using the Snowball Edge Client
- Transferring files using the Amazon S3 adapter for data migration
- Managing the NFS interface
- Using AWS IoT Greengrass to run pre-installed software on Amazon EC2-compatible instances
- Using AWS Lambda with an AWS Snowball Edge
- Using Amazon EC2-compatible compute instances
- Using Amazon S3 compatible storage on Snow Family devices
- Using Amazon EKS Anywhere on AWS Snow
- Using IAM Locally
- Using AWS Security Token Service
- Managing public key certificates
- Ports Required to Use AWS Services on an AWS Snowball Edge Device
