AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
The AWS Snow Family
Learn how the AWS Snow Family moves large datasets to AWS when the network is too slow, how the offline transfer works, and when to use it instead of transferring over the internet.
Beginner 14 minutes 4 Learning Objectives
- Explain why physical transfer devices exist when the network is too slow or unreliable
- Describe how an offline Snow Family data transfer works end to end
- Identify the current Snow Family devices and their main use cases
- Compare online transfer with AWS DataSync to offline transfer with the Snow Family