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AWS Snow Family
From the course: AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02) Cert Prep
AWS Snow Family
- [Instructor] I had a lot of conflict about just where to place the AWS Snow Family in my courses. It just does too many things. I still don't really know if the Storage Services section of this course is the correct home for it, but it'll have to remain here for now while I continue to think about it. The AWS Snow Family is what AWS refers to as AWS Hybrid Cloud Service, which extends AWS infrastructure and services into the edge where their customers physically are. Rare for a cloud computing service, these are hardware devices that get physically shipped to you from AWS. Currently, the AWS Snow Family is made up of AWS Snowcone, AWS Snowball, and AWS Snowmobile. AWS Snowcone is the tiniest at just 4.5 pounds, and provides edge computing, data storage, and data transfer services in environments with little or no internet connectivity. You can utilize it to collect and process data, transfer data to AWS using the internet by utilizing AWS DataSync, or ship the device back to AWS for…
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