undefined | Better HN

0 pointsFireBeyond4y ago0 comments

Does Snowball let you exfiltrate data from AWS? I was under the impression it was only for bulk ingestion.

0 comments

First sentence on the linked page: "With AWS Snowball, you pay only for your use of the device and for data transfer out of AWS."

leetrout4y ago

Wow that’s up to $500,000 just to export 10PB (depending on region).

canucker20164y ago

According to https://aws.amazon.com/snowball/pricing/, egress fees depends on the region, which can range from $0.03/GB (North America & parts of Europe) to $0.05/GB (parts of Asia and Africa).

So US$300K to US$500K for egress fees + cost of Snowball devices.

The major downside of Snowball in this export case is the size limit of 80TB per device - from https://aws.amazon.com/snowball/features/ :

"Snowball Edge Storage Optimized provides 80 TB of HDD capacity for block volumes and Amazon S3-compatible object storage, and 1 TB of SATA SSD for block volumes."

That'd be around 125 Snowball devices to get 10PB out.

If OP actually has 10PB on S3 currently, the OP may want to fallback to leaving the existing data on S3 and accessing new data in the new location.

4 more replies

natch4y ago

That wording is not inconsistent with the interpretation that Snowball is for in only.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse