Snowball
AWS Snowball is critical when you plan a lift and shift of an application that is already running and has a large dataset.
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What is AWS Snowball?
It is used to move large amounts of data in and out of AWS using a portable storage device for transport. The idea here is if a customer has a large amount of data then you bypass the internet by plugging a snowball and then AWS will ship the encrypted snowball device for you to plug in and extract data at your data center.
This is a petabyte-scale data transport solution that uses secure appliances to transfer large amounts of data in and out of AWS.
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