Help to transfer exabyte-scale data to AWS. Larger capacity than Snowball.
Is a secured data truck with up to 100PB storage capacity. You can scale exabyte-scale data with 10 snowmobile parallel from single location or multiple data centers.
Physical specification: 100PB storage, 45 foot long high cube container, 68K pounds.
Resistant capability: water-resistant, tamper-resistant, temperature controlled, GPS-tracked.
For larger than 10PB data sets, you should use Snowmobile. And smaller 10PB data sets, you should use Snowball Edge.
Snowmobile requires a site requirements such as power (~350KW), network connectivity)
You can connect snowmobile via NFS endpoint
Snowmobile is designed to copy at 1Tbps. Less than 10 days to copy 100PB of data.
How AWS Snowmobile work?
You place inquiry on AWS Console
AWS personel will contact you to clarify the requirements and schedule a job
AWS drives the truck to your site.
AWS connects the snowmobile to your site
Data transfer to snowmobile is completed
Snowmobile will back to designed AWS region
Upload to AWS storage service such as S3 or Glacier.
AWS will work with you to validate the uploaded data.
Pricing
Snowmobile job cost $0.005/GB/month based on amount of storage provisioned capacity.
