AWS Snowball
AWS Snowball is a physical data transport solution that uses secure appliances to transfer large amounts of data into and out of AWS. It helps overcome challenges with network bandwidth, cost, and time when moving terabytes to petabytes of data. The service includes Snowball Edge devices with additional compute and storage capabilities for local processing.
Developers should use AWS Snowball when migrating large datasets (e.g., 10+ TB) to AWS, as it's faster and cheaper than internet transfers over slow connections. It's ideal for data center migrations, content distribution, disaster recovery, and IoT data collection in remote locations. The Snowball Edge variant is useful for edge computing scenarios requiring local processing with AWS services.