This document discusses AWS Snowball Edge and AWS Greengrass. It provides an overview of the key features of AWS Snowball Edge, including its S3-compatible storage, compute capabilities, and ability to cluster multiple devices. It also discusses how AWS Greengrass can help bring cloud benefits to IoT edge devices by allowing them to run Lambda functions locally for tasks like data preprocessing. Several use cases for edge computing with these services are described, such as preprocessing sensor data from vehicles before uploading to the cloud.

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AWS Snowball Edge and AWS
Greengrass for Fun and Profit
Tom Jones
Segment Architect, Industrial Software
Amazon Web Services
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Michael Weitzel
Solutions Developer
Amazon Web Services

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Agenda

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Service features announced
• 40TB of S3 Compatible Storage
• Optional NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPU Card
• sbe1, sbe-c, and sbe-g instances feature
2.2 GHz AMD Naples processors, up to 54
vCPUs, 208 GiB of memory
• Clusterable with other AWS Snowball
Edge compute optimized devices
• Up to 6.5TB disk volumes
• 1 and 3-year discounted pricing options
AWS Snowball Edge compute optimized
AWS Snowball Edge
compute optimized

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AWS Snowball Edge key features
S3-compatible endpoint
File interface (NFS)
Clustering
Run AWS Lambda functions
Faster data transfer
Encryption

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AWS Snowball Edge can…
Extend of your
data center
Process data Expedite
move
Encrypted, secure,
and embedded
compute
Write data directly
as data is generated
Offers a fast and
cost effective way to
ensure data can be
quickly transferred
to and from the
cloud
Simplify
data transfer
Uses standard
and familiar tools
for the data
transfer process

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Collect data Create job Copy data Moved to S3
Hybrid capabilities beyond data migrationMIGRATIONCOLLECTION
Create job Copy data Moved to S3

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Going beyond bulk data migration
Collect & Process dataCreate job Ship to AWS Moved to S3

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Snowball asks VM Import/Export
to convert AMI to KVM
How Amazon EC2 instances work on AWS Snowball Edge
Customer AWS Snowball Edge VM Import/ExportPlaces order using Console/CLI/SDK
Provides AMI
Snowball accepts job and provides job id
Provides amis with s-ami.*
Snowball installs KVM
images on device
Device is shipped to customer
customer can use EC2 commands to manage instances
VM Import/Export
provides KVM images

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Clustering Features
• Scale from 5 to 10 nodes in a
AWS Snowball Edge cluster
• Clusters support aggregate
storage and compute with
leaderless nodes
• Increase durability for S3 object
storage on-premises
• Easily swap nodes for
maintenance
AWS Snowball Edge clustering for scale

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Where is edge computing in effect?
Various industries ranging from research to transportation necessitate edge
computing capabilities to help cope with environments where data generation is
decentralized, data volumes are significant and network connectivity is either
inaccessible or intermittent.
Research Industrial Healthcare Transportation

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Emerging use cases for edge compute
Transportation
Advanced driver application
systems where growing volumes of
instrument data require localized
processing and sequencing prior to
storage ingest
Aerospace
Commercial drone applications with
inline capture, transformation and
transcoding of imagery/video content
Industrial
Industrial IoT applications where
significant data volumes require
filtration and pre-processing prior to
storage ingest

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Common use cases for data pre-processing
Lambda functions can be invoked using AWS Greengrass on AWS
Snowball Edge for stateless data processing such image and video file
indexing and transformation prior to import.

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Can we bring benefits of cloud to IoT Edge?
Development
• APIs
• Infrastructure as software
• Frequent releases
• Adapts to business
Big Data Analytics
• Immediately available
• Broad & deep capabilities
• Trusted & secure
• Partners

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Local
Lambda
Local
Device Shadows
Local
Security
Greengrass
is…
Local
Broker

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Respond
quickly
to local events
Operate
offline
Simplified
device
programming
Reduce the
cost of
IoT
applications
AWS-grade
security
Benefits
AWS Greengrass

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AWS Greengrass components
AWS Greengrass is software, not
hardware (you bring your own)
2 components that work together:
• AWS Greengrass Core
• IoT Device SDK

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Video
Frames
MQTT
Message
Camera
Lambda copies
the file from s3
to /tmp/upload
ML for pose estimation
Input folder
output folder
Raw framesJSON output files

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AWS Snowball Edge
OpenPose
AMI
Translate
OpenPose
geometry to
Sumerian
coordinates

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AWS Accounts
By engaging in this workshop, you acknowledge that the AWS
account used for the AWS Snowball Edge and AWS Greengrass
for Fun and Profit may be used only for this workshop.
All accounts used during the workshop will be closed
immediately at the conclusion of the workshop. Any content in
this AWS account will not be retrievable by you or any other
workshop participants after the workshop has finished.

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