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AWS Snowball User Guide
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Importing data
from a Hadoop
Distributed File
System (HDFS)
cluster (version 2.x)
is now supported.
You can now import data from a HDFS cluster (version 2.x)
to Amazon S3 through a Snowball. For more information,
see Importing Data from HDFS (p. 54).
September 30,
2016
Programmatic job
management and
data transfers are
now supported.
You can now programmatically manage jobs and transfer
data with Snowball. For more information on using the
job management API for Snowball, see AWS Snowball API
Reference. For more information on using the Amazon S3
Adapter for Snowball to call Amazon S3 REST API actions
to transfer data with a Snowball, see Transferring Data with
the Amazon S3 Adapter for Snowball (p. 65).
August 11, 2016
Snowball is now
available from EU
(Frankfurt) in the
European Union.
You can now create and manage jobs from the EU
(Frankfurt) AWS Management Console. For more
information, see Shipping Considerations for AWS
Snowball (p. 73).
July 25, 2016
Snowball is now
available in India.
Snowball is now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai)
region. For more information, see Shipping Considerations
for AWS Snowball (p. 73).
June 27, 2016
Snowball is now
available in new
AWS Regions and
has a new storage
capacity option.
Snowball is now available in the following regions; US East
(N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), US West (N. California), EU
(Ireland), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and AWS GovCloud (US). For
more information, see Shipping Considerations for AWS
Snowball (p. 73). Snowball also has a new 80 TB model
available in all regions, in addition to the 50 TB model only
available in the US regions.
April 19, 2016
Introducing export
for AWS Snowball
You can now use Snowball to export data from Amazon
Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).
February 29, 2016
Hardware update:
SFP+ optical
interface
The Snowball appliance has been updated to include a
new SFP+ optical interface that offers slightly better signal
integrity over its copper counterpart but otherwise shares
the same high performance. If you received a Snowball
before this date, it does not have this network interface
option.
November 18,
2015
Introducing AWS
Snowball
AWS Snowball is a data transfer service for importing huge
amounts of data into Amazon Simple Storage Service
(Amazon S3). With Snowball, you can import hundreds of
terabytes or petabytes of data from your on-premises data
centers into Amazon S3.
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