AWS Snowball User Guide
Workstation Specifications
or the adapter requires up to 7 GB of dedicated RAM for memory-intensive tasks, such as performing
encryption.
Note
The hardware specifications for the workstations that are used to transfer data to and from
a Snowball are for a powerful computer. These hardware specifications are mainly based on
security requirements for the service. When data is transferred to a Snowball, a file is loaded
into the workstation's memory. While in memory, that file is fully encrypted by either the
Snowball client or the Amazon S3 Adapter for Snowball. Once the file is encrypted, chunks
of the encrypted file are sent to the Snowball. At no point is any data stored to disk. All data
is kept in memory, and only encrypted data is sent to the Snowball. These steps of loading
into memory, encrypting, chunking, and sending to the Snowball are both CPU- and memory-
intensive.
The following table outlines the suggested specifications for your workstation.
Item Suggested Specification
Processing power 16 core CPU
Memory 16 gigabytes of RAM
Important
Each running instance of the client and/or adapter requires up
to 7 GB of dedicated RAM for memory-intensive tasks, such as
performing the snowball cp command.
Microsoft Windows
support (64-bit only)
• Windows 7
• Windows 8
• Windows 10
Mac support Mac OS X version 10.10 or higher
Linux support (64-bit
only)
• Ubuntu version 12 or higher
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) version 6 or higher
User interface support • Keyboard
• Mouse
• Monitor
Network I/O support • RJ45
• SFP+ Copper
• SFP+ Optical
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