This guide is for the Snowball (50 TB or 80 TB of storage space). If you are looking for documentation for the Snowball Edge, see the AWS Snowball Edge Developer Guide.
Using Export Ranges
When you create an export job in the AWS Snow Family Management Console
Ranges are UTF-8 binary sorted. UTF-8 binary data is sorted in the following way:
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The numbers 0-9 come before both uppercase and lowercase English characters.
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Uppercase English characters come before all lowercase English characters.
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Lowercase English characters come last when sorted against uppercase English characters and numbers.
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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.
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01
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Aardvark
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Aardwolf
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Aasvogel/apple
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Aasvogel/banana
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Aasvogel/cherry
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Banana
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Car
Specified Range Beginning | Specified Range Ending | Objects in the Range That Will Be Exported |
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(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 |