Snowcone, Snowball Edge, and Snowmobile
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Physical devices scaled from a few terabytes to exabytes for offline data transfer.
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Key points
- •Snowcone: smallest, portable, for edge/space-constrained environments, some onboard compute
- •Snowball Edge: tens of TB, storage or compute-optimized variants, runs EC2/Lambda locally
- •Snowmobile: exabyte-scale, a literal truck, for the largest data center exit migrations
- •All are transfer mechanisms, not permanent storage — data lands in AWS, device is returned and wiped