> Many organizations are concerned that once they have moved all their data to the cloud it will be both expensive and time-consuming to retrieve the data if needed. Snowball Edge offers all customers a fast and inexpensive way to transfer large amounts of data both into and out of AWS.
Ingress to S3 is already free, the biggest problem is egress and that's left quite ambiguous. The pricing page points back to S3, which says "it depends". Where exactly does Snowball go within AWS itself? Is it classified as EC2? Is egress to the snowball free if it's in the same region as the data? Can the region be chosen?
Data transfers are always between the Snowball box and S3 storage. There's a flat per-transfer fee of $250 in addition to data transfer charges ($200 for the smaller model). Data Snowball->S3 is free, data S3->Snowball depends on which Region the S3 storage is in, everywhere except Asia, it's $0.03/GB. There's also physical shipping charges for the Snowball box.
Ingress to S3 is only free if your time is free and you have no deadline. Imagine migrating a a business built atop lots of local data (say movies or massive amounts of pictures).
This is a somewhat odd use-case, but does anyone know - do you have to transfer the data to S3? What if I just needed an extra 100-300TB of local storage for 10 days? Let's say for a backup during a move, or something like that. The description reads like this is possible, even if it's an unusual way to use the device.
> Many organizations are concerned that once they have moved all their data to the cloud it will be both expensive and time-consuming to retrieve the data if needed. Snowball Edge offers all customers a fast and inexpensive way to transfer large amounts of data both into and out of AWS.
Ingress to S3 is already free, the biggest problem is egress and that's left quite ambiguous. The pricing page points back to S3, which says "it depends". Where exactly does Snowball go within AWS itself? Is it classified as EC2? Is egress to the snowball free if it's in the same region as the data? Can the region be chosen?