aws october webinar series - introducing aws import / export snowball

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Henry Zhang, Senior Product Manager, AWS StorageErik Durand, Business Development Manager, AWS Storage

October 2015

Introduction to AWS Import/Export Snowball

Accelerating Large-Scale Data Ingest into AWS Storage Services

What is Snowball? Petabyte scale data transport

E-ink shipping label

Ruggedizedcase

“8.5G Impact”

All data encrypted end-to-end

50 TB10G network

Rain & dust resistant

Tamper-resistant case & electronics

How does it work?

Question 1:

Question 1: You have heard of networks, right?


• Yes


• Yes• However, for certain use cases networks are:

Too slowInelasticToo expensive


• Yes• However, for certain use cases networks are:

Too slowInelasticToo expensive

Bandwidth is growing more slowly than storage volumes


• Snowball

FastElasticCost effective

10G network50TB capacity


• Snowball• Parallelize as needed

5X Snowballs 50G & 250TB

Question 2:

Question 2: Can I drop it?


• No (please don’t)


• No (please don’t)• Snowball is its own box• Has had many drop tests already• Can handle 8.5G impacts• Designed for shipping

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 SpeedUtilization 1Gbps 500Mbps 300Mbps 150Mbps

25% 19 38 63 12650% 9 19 32 6375% 6 13 21 42

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 SpeedUtilization 1Gbps 500Mbps 300Mbps 150Mbps

25% 95 190 316 63250% 47 95 158 31675% 32 63 105 211

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

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

From Where can it go? Import to Amazon S3, Export coming soon

Amazon EMRAmazon

Redshift

Amazon S3

Amazon Glacier

Amazon DynamoDBAmazon RDSAmazon EBS

US-EAST-1(Virginia)

US-WEST-2(Oregon)

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

What does it cost?

Example 1:• 40TB loaded on to 1 Snowball• 2 days at your site• $200 plus shippingExample 2:• 30TB loaded on to 1 Snowball• 12 days at your site• $200 + 2*$15/day = $230 plus shipping

What does it cost?

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

Overview

Step 1: Create a job

Step 2: Install client & await arrival

Step 3: Plug in your Snowball appliance

Step 4: Get your credentials

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]

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]

Step 7: Unplug your Snowball appliance & notify UPS

Step 7: Wait for import to complete

Thank you!

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