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AWS Snowball Edge

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Microsoft Azure Data Box

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We performed a comparison between AWS Snowball Edge and Microsoft Azure Data Box based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Andrew Kolyvas
The documentation, setup, and use of the solution are straightforward
The solution has allowed the organization to safely transfer and store into the Microsoft Azure Cloud easily and quickly large amounts of data that... Read more →
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  • "This is a pay-as-you-go solution, where you pay for the amount of storage space that you are using."
  • "On a scale of one to five, with one being not good and five being competitive, I would rate this solution as a four."
  • "The pricing is based on the size of the appliance needed to store the data."
  • "The product’s pricing is normal for enterprises but higher for SMBs."

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    Which is better - Microsoft Azure Data Box or AWS Snowball?
    Top Answer:Microsoft Azure Databox is a 45-pound, super rugged, tamper-resistant, human-managed hardware appliance that can transfer up to 100TB of data capacity to copy, store, then send to the Azure cloud… more »
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    Top Answer:The product’s pricing is normal for enterprises but higher for SMBs. Enterprise customers prefer a longer contract, like 25 years, whereas SMBs prefer monthly billing.
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    Azure Data Box, MS Azure Data Box
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    Overview

    AWS Snowball Edge is a 100TB data transfer device with on-board storage and compute capabilities. You can use Snowball Edge to move large amounts of data into and out of AWS, as a temporary storage tier for large local datasets, or to support local workloads in remote or offline locations.

    The Azure Data Box service lets you transfer terabytes of data into Azure in a quick, inexpensive, and reliable manner. Microsoft accelerates the secure data transfer by shipping you disks and handling the end-to-end logistics.

    Transfer large amounts of data to Azure in 4 easy steps – order, receive, copy data to disks, and return disks to Azure. After the disks are received, data is ingested into Azure and disks are securely wiped.

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    Small Business63%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise25%
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    Small Business20%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise69%
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    AWS Snowball Edge is ranked 6th in Data Migration Appliances while Microsoft Azure Data Box is ranked 1st in Data Migration Appliances with 8 reviews. AWS Snowball Edge is rated 0.0, while Microsoft Azure Data Box is rated 8.6. On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure Data Box writes "Efficiently handles heavy incoming traffic and maintains stable operations without crashing the application ". AWS Snowball Edge is most compared with AWS Snowball, whereas Microsoft Azure Data Box is most compared with AWS Snowball, Google Transfer Appliance, Palantir Foundry and IBM Cloud Mass Data Migration.

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