Hi, everyone, and welcome back.
Now, in today's video, we are going to discuss about the Snowball family.
Now, before we discuss about the Snowball family, let's understand with a simple use case that will
allow us to know on how snowball really benefits.
So the use case states that Organization A has hosted all of its storage infrastructure in data center.
Now the total storage that they have is 500 terabytes and they have now decided to make use of S3 due
to the benefit that it provides.
Now, the question that comes is since they are planning to use S3, they will have to migrate all the
500 terabytes of data to S3, and this is a big task.
Now, depending upon the bandwidth that they have, the transfer time will also differ.
For example, if they have a dedicated bandwidth of 100 MIPS, it will take 510 days.
It will take more than one year to go ahead and transfer the data.
If the 500 Mbps connection, it will take at least three months.
If they have one GB, it can take around two months for the data transfer to complete.
And if there are any interruptions in the network and all the overall time will increase further.
And we have just taken an example of 500 TB.
Many of the organizations have data in petabytes, and moving data across the Internet is something
that becomes very costly and time consuming.
Now, in order to overcome this, ADA has released some of the offerings as part of the Snowball family.
The main aim of the snowball related devices is to allow the customers to accelerate moving offline
data or remote storage to the cloud.
Now, what really happens here is that a team will be sending some storage devices to the customer.
Customer will load the data in the storage device and they will ship back the storage device to the
team, a team they have internal network to the services and from the internal network.
They will go ahead and they will load the data to services like S3 Bucket.
This is one example.
Let's say second example is there is a lot of data in the S3 bucket and the customer wants that data
into their on premise location.
In a similar way, the team can download the data from S3, ship it back to the customer through storage
device, customer downloads the data locally, deletes it from the devices and ship back the empty device
back to the A.
So this is one of the primary aim based on which the snowball related devices were initially launched.
Now, if you are wondering how exactly these storage devices looks like, let's quickly have a look.
Now, one of the devices is the snowball edge.
Again, this is where you can go ahead and load and ship the data.
This is one part.
If you have a huge amount of data, then again, there is an offering called Snow Mobile.
So you have a mini truck kind of approach here and you can load a huge amount of data in case if you
have that.
So no matter how much data you have from small devices to midsize to large size, all the offerings
are available from a site.
Now, along with the primary aim of moving the data across the E.
S and customer networks, these mobile devices also comes up with a new set of features called as the
edge computing.
So the edge computing basically allows you to run your applications in easy two instances that are running
inside the devices.
And the benefit is that let's say you are working in some of a remote networks like desert or maybe
in the underground mines or maybe in the oil fields, which does not have an Internet connectivity at
all.
And if you have some custom applications that you want to run, maybe you want to perform image processing,
video processing, machine learning, etc..
So in such cases, not only storage will help you, but also local computing capabilities are very important.
So this kind of functionality also comes with the snowball set of devices.
So maybe you can process the data locally.
And once you have the internet connectivity after a few months or maybe after a year, you can plug
it back to the network and you can upload the data back to us.
So let's go ahead and look into some of the devices that are available as part of the Snowball family.
The first one is the snow cone.
Snow cone, as you see, the overall size is much more smaller.
And the main aim here is to be small, rugged and secure, so it can go into a severe environment with
little or no connectivity.
So you can also carry it in a backpack, drones and others.
Now, snow cone comes with a less number of storage, like eight GB of usable storage.
But the main benefit here is the edge computing.
The second device is called as the snowball edge.
The overall size is much more larger when compared to the snow cone, but the capacity is also larger,
so it is available in multiple storage capacity like you have 100 terabyte, 40 terabyte and others
depending upon what you need.
And when we are discussing the.
Role compute power of knowledge is also much, much more higher when compared with snow cone.
Now, when we discuss about snowball edge, there are multiple offerings that are available inside it.
For example, you have a snowball edge storage optimized where you have an option of 100 terabyte of
storage capacity in which 80 terabyte is usable.
You also have the snowball etch storage optimized with the easy to compute functionality.
So in this kind of a device, you get 24 v CPU and 80 GB of memory to perform compute related functionality.
You have snowball edge compute optimized.
Now this kind of a device has the highest computing capability like it has 104 v CPUs and more than
400 GB memory 28 terabyte of dedicated nvme SSD for compute instances so you can run local applications
in AC, for instance in these devices without need of any internet connectivity at all.
And in case if organizations also require graphical processing, maybe for image or video analysis and
others, then you also have snowball edge compute optimized with GPU.
The next offering is the snow snowmobile as we know it is a big 45 foot long ruggedized shipping container
pulled by a semi trailer truck.
Now, one of the benefit here is the storage size.
So for any use case where you want to move extremely large amounts of data into a place, this is something
that you will be choosing and you can transfer up to 100 petabytes per snowmobile.
Now, before we conclude, let's quickly also look into from where can we order these devices now in
this snow family based console, you can order a snow family device.
Let's quickly look into it now.
You can also choose a set of job.
For example, if you want to input some data into S3, as we're discussing in the use case, you have
some data in the local infrastructure and you want to move it to S3.
This is one option.
You can also export data from S3 if you have a large set of data in SD and if you want to store it locally,
this is also something that is possible.
So let's say I want to import some data into S3, Let's quickly acknowledge it.
Let's go to next it will ask you for an address.
Let's quickly look into it.
So in the country at this stage it is stating Singapore.
So depending on which region you are ordering from, you'll have to choose it.
So currently I'm in the Singapore region and the country is Singapore.
So let's do one thing.
Let's switch to India region.
So it would be Mumbai.
Let's go ahead and quickly use our address.
So I have a sample address that I have added.
You have a shipping speed of express and standard.
You'll have to specify tax information.
Let me just add a random one here.
Now, you can choose what is this device that you can order.
You have a snow cone, you have a snowball edge storage, optimized snowball edge compute optimize and
snowball edge compute optimized with GPU.
As we are discussing, Each one comes with its own set of CPUs and storage so that you can go ahead
and plan accordingly.
Now, if you see snow cone is one of the smallest one that we were discussing, it just comes with a
memory of four GB and the compute of two v CPUs.
This is way smaller than the snowball edge devices and based on that, you can order accordingly.
Now let's say you have decided to go with one of the 80 terabyte option.
Since you have larger amount of data, then what you can do is you can select the S3 bucket and the
data that you load will be moved to those S3 bucket accordingly.
And within the pricing option as well, you can select on demand per day pricing one year commit and
three are upfront depending upon what you need.
As we are discussing, It also comes with edge computing, so you can go ahead and select the appropriate
EMIs here.
So you have the Amazon Linux two for Snow Family Amma that is available.
Now before we conclude, also note that if you're working with the Snow family, there is one important
application called as Ops Hub.
So Ops sub is a graphical user interface that you can use to manage your mobile devices.
So you can go ahead and install this within your operating system and then you can select the device,
You can provide the IP address to connect to the device and can manage it accordingly.
So this is a very high level overview of the Snowball family and with this will conclude today's video.