AWS Snowball User Guide
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Getting Started with AWS Snowball
With AWS Snowball (Snowball), you can transfer hundreds of terabytes or petabytes of data between
your on-premises data centers and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). Following, you can
find general instructions for creating and completing your first data transfer job. You can find more
information on specific components of Snowball later in this documentation. For an overview of the
service as a whole, see How AWS Snowball Works with the Standard Snowball Appliance (p. 6).
Both sets of instructions assume that you'll use the AWS Snowball Management Console to create your
job and the Snowball client to locally transfer your data. If you'd rather work programmatically, to create
jobs you can use the job management API for Snowball. For more information, see AWS Snowball API
Reference. To transfer your data programmatically, you can use the Amazon S3 Adapter for Snowball. For
more information, see Transferring Data with the Amazon S3 Adapter for Snowball (p. 65).
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If you already have an AWS account, go ahead and skip to the next section: Create an Administrator IAM
User (p. 16). Otherwise, see Sign Up for AWS (p. 14).
Create an Administrator IAM User
If you already have an administrator AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) user account, go
ahead and skip to one of the sections listed following. If you don't have an administrator IAM user, we
recommend that you create one and not use the root credentials of your AWS account to make requests.
To do so, see Create an IAM User (p. 14).
Important
There is no free tier for Snowball. To avoid unwanted charges and delays, read through the
relevant import or export section following before you start creating your jobs.
Next:
• Importing Data into Amazon S3 with AWS Snowball (p. 16)
• Exporting Data from Amazon S3 with Snowball (p. 24)
Importing Data into Amazon S3 with AWS
Snowball
The process for importing data into Amazon S3 with Snowball has the following steps.
Topics
• Create an Import Job (p. 17)
• Receive the AWS Snowball Appliance (p. 18)
• Connect the AWS Snowball Appliance to Your Local Network (p. 20)
• Transfer Data (p. 21)
• Return the Appliance (p. 24)
• Monitor the Import Status (p. 24)
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