AWS Snowball is a petabyte-scale data transfer service built around a secure suitcase-sized device that moves data into and out of the AWS Cloud quickly and efficiently. Jobs begin in the AWS Management Console, when a device (or devices) are shipped to your designated site to be filled up with data. Once the job is finished, the device is shipped back to AWS and the data put into your S3 bucket. Typical transfer times are about a week from start to finish. Snowballs are commonly used to ship terabytes or petabytes of analytics data, healthcare and life sciences data, video libraries, image repositories, backups, and archives as part of data center shutdown, tape replacement, or application migration projects.
Jim Z.
Advanced user of AWS Snowball
★★★★★
What a Piece of Junk and the support is terrible!!!!
Describe the project or task the product helped with:
We ordered a 100 TB snowball it took 4 months to copy the data. We wrote and told them we needed urgent help and all we got was e mail responses and crickets. Than the time on the Snowball expired. Than we had to send it back and order another snowball. The new snowball is saying 88 days to copy our files. DO NOT USE AMAZON SNOWBALL. It takes forever to copy from SAN and the customer service STINKS!!! Even when we marked the request as urgent no one called us.
What do you like best?
None of it, this product stinks and the customer service is horrible.
What do you dislike?
Even when we marked the request as urgent no one called us.
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?
None it does nor work.
Review source: G2.com
