Moving terabyte and petabyte volumes of data into the cloud can be a challenge for many businesses. Come learn how you can use Snowball, a new AWS feature, to move large-scale (terabyte and petabyte) data to AWS storage services.

1. © 2015, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.
Colin Lazier, General Manager - AWS Import/Export & Amazon Glacier
October 2015
Introduction to
AWS Import/Export Snowball
Accelerating Large-Scale Data Ingest
into AWS Storage Services
STG202

2. What to expect from the session
• What is AWS Import/Export Snowball?
• How does it work?
• What are the two most commonly asked Snowball
questions?
• How fast is that truck full of drives?
• How is my data transported securely?
• Where can it go?
• What does it cost?
• Demo

3. What is Snowball? Petabyte scale data transport
E-ink shipping
label
Ruggedized
case
“8.5G Impact”
All data encrypted
end-to-end
50 TB
10G network
Rain & dust
resistant
Tamper-resistant
case & electronics

4. How does it work?

5. Question 1:

6. Question 1: You have heard of networks, right?

7. Question 1: You have heard of networks, right?
• Yes

8. Question 1: You have heard of networks, right?
• Yes
• However, for certain use cases networks are:
Too slow
Inelastic
Too expensive

9. Question 1: You have heard of networks, right?
• Yes
• However, for certain use cases networks are:
Too slow
Inelastic
Too expensive
Bandwidth is growing
more slowly than
storage volumes

10. Question 1: You have heard of networks, right?
• Snowball
Fast
Elastic
Cost effective
10G network
50TB capacity

11. Question 1: You have heard of networks, right?
• Snowball
Fast
Elastic
Cost effective
10G network
50TB capacity

12. Question 1: You have heard of networks, right?
• Snowball
• Parallelize as needed
5X Snowballs
50G & 250TB

13. Question 2:

14. Question 2: Can I drop it?

15. Question 2: Can I drop it?
• No (please don’t)

16. Question 2: Can I drop it?
• No (please don’t)
• Snowball is its own box
• Has had many drop tests already
• Can handle 8.5G impacts
• Designed for shipping

17. Ok, let’s drop it

18. How fast is that truck full of drives?
• Less than 1 day to transfer 50TB via a 10G connection
with Snowball, less than 1 week including shipping
• Number of days to transfer 50TB via the internet at typical
utilizations
Internet Connection Speed
Utilization 1Gbps 500Mbps 300Mbps 150Mbps
25% 19 38 63 126
50% 9 19 32 63
75% 6 13 21 42

19. How fast is that truck full of drives?
• Less than 1 day to transfer 250TB via 5x10G connections
with 5 Snowballs, less than 1 week including shipping
• Number of days to transfer 250TB via the Internet at
typical utilizations
Internet Connection Speed
Utilization 1Gbps 500Mbps 300Mbps 150Mbps
25% 95 190 316 632
50% 47 95 158 316
75% 32 63 105 211

20. How is my data transported securely?
• 256-bit encryption
• Data is encrypted by the
Snowball client before it reaches
the Snowball appliance
• Keys are managed by KMS and
are never sent to the Snowball

21. How is my data transported securely?
• Strong chain of custody
• Tamper-resistant case
• Tamper-resistant electronics
(TPM)
• Each Snowball is erased
according to NIST 800-88 media
sanitization guidelines between
every job

22. From Where can it go?
Import to Amazon S3, Export coming soon
Amazon
EMR
Amazon Redshift
Amazon S3
Amazon Glacier
Amazon DynamoDBAmazon RDS
Amazon EBS
US-EAST-1
(Virginia)
US-WEST-2
(Oregon)

23. What does it cost?
• $200 / job plus shipping
• Includes 10 days to fill the device at your site
• $15/day after the tenth day on site
• Standard Amazon S3 charges apply
• $0.03/GB to transfer data out
• $0.00/GB to transfer data in

24. What does it cost?
Example 1:
• 40TB loaded on to 1 Snowball
• 2 days at your site
• $200 plus shipping
Example 2:
• 30TB loaded on to 1 Snowball
• 12 days at your site
• $200 + 2*$15/day = $230 plus shipping

25. What does it cost?
Example 3:
• 140TB loaded on to 3 Snowballs
• 8 days at your site
• 3 * $200 = $600 plus shipping
Example 4:
• 30TB exported on to 1 Snowball
• 8 days at your site
• $200 + 30TB * $0.03/GB = $1,121.60 plus shipping

26. Demo

27. Overview

28. Step 1: Create a job

29. Step 1: Create a job

30. Step 1: Create a job

31. Step 1: Create a job

32. Step 2: Install client & await arrival

33. Step 3: Plug in your Snowball appliance

34. Step 4: Get your credentials

35. Step 5: Connect client to the Snowball appliance
From a terminal:
 snowball start -i 192.0.2.0 -m
/Downloads/JID2EXAMPLE-0c40-49a7-9f53-
916aEXAMPLE81-manifest.bin -u 12345-abcde-12345-
ABCDE-123
snowball start -i [Snowball IP Address] -m
[Path/to/manifest/file] -u [29 character unlock code]

36. Step 6: Copy your data
From terminal:
 snowball cp --recursive /Logs/April
s3://MyBucket/Logs/April
snowball cp [options] [path/to/data/source]
s3://[path/to/data/destination]

37. Step 7: Unplug your Snowball appliance & notify UPS

38. Step 7: Wait for import to complete

39. Thank you!

40. Remember to complete
your evaluations!