AWS Snowball Reviews

Name: AWS Snowball
Brand: Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Rating: 5 (5 reviews)

4.5 out of 5

5 reviews
83% willing to recommend

What is AWS Snowball?UNIXBusinessApplication
Price:

Snowball is a petabyte-scale data transport solution that uses devices designed to be secure to transfer large amounts of data into and out of the AWS Cloud. Using Snowball addresses common challenges with large-scale data transfers including high network costs, long transfer times, and security concerns. Customers today use Snowball to migrate analytics data, genomics data, video libraries, image repositories, backups, and to archive part of data center shutdowns, tape replacement or application migration projects. Transferring data with Snowball is simple, fast, more secure, and can be as little as one-fifth the cost of transferring data via high-speed Internet.

Get the Cloud Migration Buyer's Guide and find out what your peers are saying about AWS Snowball, Palantir Foundry, Microsoft Azure Data Box and more!

AWS Snowball is the #2 ranked solution in top Data Migration Appliances and #13 ranked solution in top Cloud Migration solutions. PeerSpot users give AWS Snowball an average rating of 9.0 out of 10. AWS Snowball is most commonly compared to Palantir Foundry: AWS Snowball vs Palantir Foundry. AWS Snowball is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 66% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a computer software company, accounting for 14% of all views.

Buyer's Guide

Cloud Migration

March 2024

Get the category report

Helped 768,246 peers since 2012

Featured reviews

Jawed Iqbal

Manager of Systems at Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology

Dec 5, 2023

I use AWS Snowball to help with large-scale data transfers for my clients. One of them uses FortiGuard for security purposes and backup storage. Since shipping Snowball devices to Pakistan isn't allowed, I find it handy for them to securely transfer and store massive amounts of data without relying…

Read full review

AnupChapalgaonkar

Cloud Solution Architect at Tech Mahindra

Jan 16, 2020

We are trying to model the solution with some other vendors like Azure on a public cloud environment. We are creating some scale models will identify the public cloud networks over the internet. We are trying to evaluate the functionality We are currently exploring the solution, as it's still…

Read full review

BaijuShah

CEO at Ebiashara Africa Limited

Dec 12, 2019

Our primary use case for Snowball is ETL data extract. Transform and load. That's what we're using Snowball for at the moment. So basically adding an analytical layer on top of the current data warehouses for some of our customers From our point of view, one of the most important features are the…

Read full review

AWS Snowball market share

Product category:

As of March 2024, the market share of AWS Snowball in the Cloud Migration category stands at 0.9%, marking an increase of Infinity% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Cloud Migration

Key learnings from peers

Valuable Features

"The most valuable features of AWS Snowball for me are its security measures and its flexibility."
"You are able to scale the solution vertically. It's very scalable."
"It's a nice way of shipping a lot of data without using a network."

Room for Improvement

"I think AWS Snowball could improve by expanding its availability to more countries."
"The stability of the solution isn't ideal and should be improved."
"It's not an easy product to start using for a beginner, but If you're a professional, it's easy to understand."