Introducing the Snow family

The Snow family of services offers a number of physical devices and capacity points, including some with built-in compute capabilities. These services help physically transport up to Exabytes of data into and out of AWS. The Snow family of services are owned and managed by AWS and integrate with AWS security, monitoring,  storage management and computing capabilities.

To get started, you simply request a device through the AWS Console. We send it to your site where you fill it with data and return it to the AWS region it came from. These devices are simple to provision, extremely cost effective, and are designed to temporarily and securely store data while it is shipped between your location and an AWS region using the freight carrier of your choice.  

All Snow family devices are designed to be secure and tamper-resistant while on site or in transit to AWS: the hardware and software is cryptographically signed and all data stored is automatically encrypted using 256-bit encryption keys owned and managed by the customer. Customers can use the AWS Key Management Service (KMS) to generate and manage the keys. Upon job completion devices are erased using NIST media sanitation guidelines.