S3 - Snowball

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Understand what Snowball is

    Snowball is a petabyte-scale data transport solution that uses secure appliances to transfer large amounts of data into and out of AWS. Using Snowball addresses common challenges with large-scale data transfers including high network costs, long transfer times, and security concerns. Transferring data with Snowball is simple, fast, secure, and can be as little as one-fifth the cost of high-speed Internet.

Understand what Import Export is

    AWS Import/Export Disk accelerates moving large amounts of data into and out of the AWS cloud using portable storage decives for transport. AWS Import/Export Disk transfer your data directly onto and off of storage devices using Amazon's high-speed internal network and bypassing the Internet.

Snowball Can

1. Import to S3
2. Export from S3