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The enhanced https://aws.amazon.com/snowball/?nc=sn&loc=4 devices are designed for your petabyte-scale data migration projects, with 210 terabytes of NVMe storage and the ability to transfer up to 1.5 gigabytes of data per second. Large Data Migration In order to make your migration as smooth and efficient as possible, we now have a well-defined Large Data Migration program. As part of this program, we will work with you to make sure that your site is able to support rapid data transfer, and to set up a proof-of-concept migration.

Ordering Devices While you can order and manage devices individually, you can save time and reduce complexity by using a large data migration plan.

I open the AWS Snow Family Console and click Create your large data migration plan: I enter a name for my migration plan (MediaMigrationPlan), and select or enter the shipping address of my data center: Then I specify the amount of data that I plan to migrate, and the number of devices that I want to use concurrently (taking into account space, power, bandwidth, and logistics within my data center): When everything looks good I click Create data migration plan to proceed and my plan becomes active: I can review the Monitoring section my my plan to see how my migration is going (these are simply https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/ metrics and I can add them to a dashboard, set alarms, and so forth): The Jobs section includes a recommended job ordering schedule that takes the maximum number of concurrent devices into account: When I am ready to start transferring data, I visit the Jobs ordered tab and create a Snow job: As the devices arrive, I connect them to my network and copy data to them via S3 (read https://docs.aws.amazon.com/snowball/latest/developer-guide/manage-s3.html) or NFS (read https://docs.aws.amazon.com/snowball/latest/developer-guide/manage-nfs.html), then return it to AWS for ingestion!