AWS Snowball User Guide
Receive the Snowball
• Data source – This device holds the data that you want to transfer from your on-premises data center
into Amazon S3. It can be a single device, such as a hard drive or USB stick, or it can be separate
sources of data within your data center. The data source or sources must be mounted onto your
workstation in order to transfer data from them.
• Workstation – This computer hosts your mounted data source. You'll use this workstation to transfer
data to the Snowball. We highly recommend that your workstation be a powerful computer, able
to meet high demands in terms of processing, memory, and networking. For more information, see
Workstation Specifications (p. 93).
Next: Connect the AWS Snowball Appliance to Your Local Network (p. 20)
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