Using Export Ranges

When you create an export job in the AWS Snowball Management Console, you can choose to export an entire Amazon S3 bucket or a specific range of objects keys. Object key names uniquely identify objects in a bucket. If you choose to export a range, you define the length of the range by providing either an inclusive range beginning, an inclusive range ending, or both.

Ranges are UTF-8 binary sorted. UTF-8 binary data is sorted in the following way:

• The numbers 0-9 come before both uppercase and lowercase English characters.

• Uppercase English characters come before all lowercase English characters.

• Lowercase English characters come last when sorted against uppercase English characters and numbers.

• Special characters are sorted among the other character sets.

For more information on the specifics of UTF-8 sort order, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8.

Export Range Examples

Assume you have a bucket containing the following objects, sorted in UTF-8 binary order.

• 01

• Aardvark

• Aardwolf

• Aasvogel/apple

• Aasvogel/banana

• Aasvogel/cherry

• Banana

• Car

Specified Range Beginning	Specified Range Ending	Objects in the Range That Will Be Exported
(none)	(none)	All of the objects in your bucket
(none)	Aasvogel	01 Aardvark Aardwolf Aasvogel/apple Aasvogel/banana Aasvogel/cherry
(none)	Aasvogel/banana	01 Aardvark Aardwolf Aasvogel/apple Aasvogel/banana
Aasvogel	(none)	Aasvogel/apple Aasvogel/banana Aasvogel/cherry Banana Car
Aardwolf	(none)	Aardwolf Aasvogel/apple Aasvogel/banana Aasvogel/cherry Banana Car
Aar	(none)	Aardvark Aardwolf Aasvogel/apple Aasvogel/banana Aasvogel/cherry Banana Car
car	(none)	No objects will be exported, and you’ll get an error message when you try to create the job. Note that car is sorted below Car according to UTF-8 binary values.
Aar	Aarrr	Aardvark Aardwolf