I use AWS extensively for commercial companies. These companies, which want to sell online, often utilize many AWS tools that allow them to develop applications. I focus on the infrastructure of AWS, managing all things related to computing, storage, and network. BTW, Disaster Recovery: Organizations use Snowball to back up critical data off-site quickly Research & Development: Researchers working with genomic or scientific datasets benefit from faster data transfer to the cloud for analysis.
I use Amazon products in two instances. First, I run a startup leveraging AWS, where our workloads are on the cloud. Second, I help customers using AWS cloud. I work as an authorized instructor with training partners.
AWS Snowball is positioned to help clients move data from on-premises environments to AWS Cloud securely. It serves as an AWS hybrid model, which clients can utilize locally at their convenient time to secure data transfer to AWS data centers or warehouses.
I've used AWS Snowball mainly for data transfer, migration, and disaster recovery. It's great for moving large amounts of data securely and efficiently.
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 solely on internet connections, making the process faster and more efficient.
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.
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.
Lead Developer at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
MSP
Nov 26, 2019
This is a product used to upload huge amounts of data into the cloud. That's the scope of it. For that purpose, it's authentic, and I don't think that there are competitive alternatives available. You can upload huge amounts of data like archiving.
Technical Consultant / CTO at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Consultant
Sep 24, 2019
I primarily have used the solution to move data. If we have a huge amount of data and we need to move it, we request a Snowball, a box from Amazon. It's shipped to the customer location and we connect it to the environment.
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...
I use AWS extensively for commercial companies. These companies, which want to sell online, often utilize many AWS tools that allow them to develop applications. I focus on the infrastructure of AWS, managing all things related to computing, storage, and network. BTW, Disaster Recovery: Organizations use Snowball to back up critical data off-site quickly Research & Development: Researchers working with genomic or scientific datasets benefit from faster data transfer to the cloud for analysis.
I use Amazon products in two instances. First, I run a startup leveraging AWS, where our workloads are on the cloud. Second, I help customers using AWS cloud. I work as an authorized instructor with training partners.
AWS Snowball is positioned to help clients move data from on-premises environments to AWS Cloud securely. It serves as an AWS hybrid model, which clients can utilize locally at their convenient time to secure data transfer to AWS data centers or warehouses.
I've used AWS Snowball mainly for data transfer, migration, and disaster recovery. It's great for moving large amounts of data securely and efficiently.
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 solely on internet connections, making the process faster and more efficient.
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.
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.
This is a product used to upload huge amounts of data into the cloud. That's the scope of it. For that purpose, it's authentic, and I don't think that there are competitive alternatives available. You can upload huge amounts of data like archiving.
I primarily have used the solution to move data. If we have a huge amount of data and we need to move it, we request a Snowball, a box from Amazon. It's shipped to the customer location and we connect it to the environment.