AWS Snowball

NOTICE: Effective November 7, 2025, AWS Snowball Edge devices will only be available to existing customers. New customers should explore AWS DataSync for online transfers, AWS Data Transfer Terminal for secure physical transfers, or AWS Partner solutions. For edge computing, explore AWS Outposts. Click to learn more about your options.

AWS Snowball resources

What's New with Snowball

AWS OpsHub

AWS OpsHub is a graphical user interface you can use to manage AWS Snowball devices. AWS OpsHub makes it easy to setup and manage Snowball devices enabling you to rapidly deploy edge computing workloads and simplify data migration to the cloud. With just a few clicks in OpsHub, you have the full functionality of the Snowball of devices at your fingertips. You can unlock and configure devices, drag-and-drop data to devices, launch applications, and monitor device metrics.

AWS OpsHub documentation

AWS OpsHub

Operating System	AWS OpsHub
Windows 7 or higher	Download
Mac OS X 10.10 or higher	Download
Linux (Ubuntu version 14 or higher, and Fedora version 24 or higher)	Download (Signature)

AWS Snowball Edge Client

The Snowball Edge Client is a terminal application for Snowball devices that you can use to unlock, set up, and administer devices.

We recommend using the latest Linux or Mac clients which support the Advanced Encryption Standard New Instructions (AES-NI) extension to the x86 instruction set architecture. This improves speeds for encrypting or decrypting data during transfers between the Snowball devices and your Mac or Linux workstations.

Using the Snowball Edge Client documentation

AWS Snowball Edge Client

Operating System	AWS Snowball Edge Client
Windows 7 or higher	Download
Mac OS X 10.10 or higher	Download
Linux (Ubuntu version 12 or higher, and RHEL version 6 or higher)	Download

Documentation

AWS SNOWBALL EDGE USER GUIDE

Provides a conceptual overview of how to use a AWS Snowball Edge device, and includes guidance for local storage and compute, clustering, importing and exporting data into Amazon S3, and other features.
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API REFERENCE

Describes all the job and shipping API operations for Snowball devices in detail. Also provides sample requests, responses, and errors for the supported web services protocols.
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Webinars

AWS Snow Family Overview

Migrating Data to AWS

Computing at the Edge

Offline Data Transfer

Videos

AWS on Air Pi Day 2022 - Accelerate Your Storage Migration

AWS re:Invent 2021 - Accelerate physical tape data migration to AWS

AWS re:Invent 2020 - Optimize your data migration with AWS Snowcone and AWS Snowball Edge

AWS re:Invent 2020: Edge computing innovation with AWS Snowcone and AWS Snowball Edge

Videos

Moving Massive Amounts of Data

AWS Snowball Edge Unboxing and Unlocking

Copy Data to AWS Snowball Edge using Amazon S3

Copying Windows Data to AWS Snowball with NFS

Videos

Pushing Physical Limits

Disaster Scenario Solutions

Datacenter Shutdown

Capturing Data in Remote Sites

Data Migration & Edge Computing

Blog Posts

Free Training

AWS Snowball Edge Getting Started

This intermediate, e-learning course is about 1.5 hours. It covers common use cases for AWS Snowball Edge to determine if this is the right choice for a specific project. The self-paced course addresses the Snowball Edge device types and job types for your use cases as well as Snowball Edge physical features, security features, and hardware resource capabilities.

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AWS Snowball Edge Logistics and Planning

This 1 hr 25 min course will help customers learn about the AWS Regions where Snowball Edge device is available, time frames for receiving and using the device, and how Snowball Edge pricing works. The course will also cover the customer requirements for networking and infrastructure and data set/data transfer activities.

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AWS Snowball Edge: Using AWS Snowball Edge

This course teaches learners how to use the device to transfer data using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI). The course also teaches how to complete a Snowball Edge job and ship the device back to AWS.

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Next steps

Learn more about AWS Snowball from our FAQs page

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AWS Snowball resources

What's New with Snowball

AWS OpsHub

AWS OpsHub

AWS Snowball Edge Client

AWS Snowball Edge Client

Featured Content

Evolving at the Edge with the AWS Snow Family

AWS Snowball Edge Data Migration Guide

Novetta Uses AWS Snowball Edge for disaster response

Documentation

AWS SNOWBALL EDGE USER GUIDE

API REFERENCE

Webinars

Videos

Videos

Videos

Blog Posts

Free Training

AWS Snowball Edge Getting Started

AWS Snowball Edge Logistics and Planning

AWS Snowball Edge: Using AWS Snowball Edge

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