AWS Snowball - Return the Appliance; Repeat the Process; Where Do I Go from here

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AWS Snowball User Guide

Return the Appliance

Return the Appliance (p. 32)

Return the Appliance

The prepaid shipping label on the E Ink display contains the correct address to return the Snowball.

For information on how to return your Snowball, see Shipping Carriers (p. 74). The Snowball will be

delivered to an AWS sorting facility and forwarded to the AWS data center. Your region's carrier will

automatically report back a tracking number for your job to the AWS Snowball Management Console.

You can access that tracking number, and also a link to the tracking website, by viewing the job's status

details in the console.

Important

Unless personally instructed otherwise by AWS, never aﬃx a separate shipping label to the

Snowball. Always use the shipping label that is displayed on the Snowball's E Ink display.

When your region's carrier gets the Snowball, the status for the job becomes In transit to AWS. At this

point, if your export job has more job parts, the next job part enters the Preparing Snowball status.

Next: Repeat the Process (p. 32)

Repeat the Process

Once we receive a returned Snowball for your export job part, we perform a complete erasure of the

Snowball. This erasure follows the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) 800-88

standards. This step marks the completion of that particular job part. If there are more job parts, the

next job part is being prepared to be shipped out.

You can monitor the status of all your jobs and job parts from the AWS Snowball Management Console.

Next: Where Do I Go from Here? (p. 32)

Where Do I Go from Here?

Now that you've read through the getting started section and begun your ﬁrst data transfer job, you can

learn more about using the Snowball tools and interfaces detail from the following topics:

• Using the AWS Snowball Management Console (p. 40)

• Using an AWS Snowball Appliance (p. 45)

• Transferring Data with a Snowball (p. 51)

We also recommend that you checkout the job management API for AWS Snowball. For more

information, see AWS Snowball API Reference

If you're importing data into Amazon S3 for the ﬁrst time, you might want to learn more about what you

can do with your data once it's there. For more information, see the Amazon S3 Getting Started Guide.