# Snowball/Snowmobile Overview

* **Snowball cannot import into Glacier directly**.

## Snowball

* Uses physical storage devices to transfer large amounts of data between Amazon S3 and your onsite data storage location at faster-than-internet speeds.\

*   **50 TB and 80 TB models** are available in US Regions.

    * 50 TB model available in all other AWS Regions.


* Enforced encryption protects your data at rest and in physical transit.\

* No need to buy or maintain your own hardware devices.

## Snowball Edge

* Type of Snowball device with **on-board storage and compute power for select AWS capabilities**.\

* Can do **local processing and edge-computing workloads** in addition to transferring data between your local environment and the AWS Cloud.\

* Snowball Edge Storage Optimized provides **100 TB of capacity** and 24 vCPUs and is well suited for local storage and large scale data transfer.\

* Snowball Edge Compute Optimized provides 52 vCPUs and an optional GPU for use cases such as advanced machine learning and full motion video analysis in disconnected environments.\

* Encryption is enforced, protecting your data at rest and in physical transit.\

* Have Amazon S3 and Amazon EC2 compatible endpoints available, enabling programmatic use cases.

## Snowmobile

* **Exabyte-scale data transfer service** used to move extremely large amounts of data to AWS.\

* Can transfer up to **100PB per Snowmobile**.\

* A 45-foot long ruggedized shipping container pulled by a semi-trailer truck.\

*   Makes it easy to move massive volumes of data to the cloud, including video libraries, image repositories, or even a complete data centre migration.


* Uses multiple layers of security to help protect your data:
  * Dedicated security personnel.
  * GPS tracking.
  * Alarm monitoring.
  * 24/7 video surveillance.
  * An optional escort security vehicle while in transit
