AWS Snowball Edge Primer

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Welcome to the AWS Snowball Edge Primer course! The AWS Snowball Edge Primer consists of three courses or modules to help familiarize you with the AWS Snowball Edge service offering.

      •    AWS Snowball Edge Process Overview and Use Cases

      •    Understanding AWS Snowball Edge Features

      •    AWS Snowball Edge Integration with Other AWS Services

In this course, you learn about the Snowball Edge device types and job types for your use cases. You examine the challenges for data transfer and the Snowball Edge use cases. You also learn how to configure a job, and you become familiar with all the features of the device. You also explore the AWS services that integrate with Snowball Edge to provide compute, block storage, notification services, and encryption.

      •    Course level: Intermediate

      •    Duration: 2 Hours 5 Minutes

Activities

This course includes interactive lessons and knowledge check questions.

Course objectives

In this course, you will learn to do the following:

      •    Identify use cases where Snowball Edge can be applied to solve real-world challenges and extend cloud computing capabilities to the edge.

      •    Recognize the limitations of Snowball Edge and recognize inappropriate use cases.

      •    Explain the different Snowball Edge job types and the associated processes for ordering, using, and returning a Snowball Edge device.

      •    Explain Snowball Edge physical security features.

      •    Describe Snowball Edge software and use features.

      •    Differentiate between Snowball Edge device types.

      •    Select the best Snowball Edge device type to meet your requirements.

      •    Explain how Amazon EC2 compute services operate with Snowball Edge.

      •    Describe how EBS volumes work with Amazon EC2 operations on different Snowball Edge device models.

      •    Discuss Lambda powered by AWS IoT Greengrass integration.

      •    Describe CloudTrail service integration.

      •    Explain how AWS KMS is used to protect device data.

      •    Explain how Snowball Edge integrates with the AWS DMS service.

Intended audience

This course is intended for:

      •    Business decision makers

      •    Cloud architects

      •    Cloud administrators

      •    Storage administrators

      •    Migration engineers

      •    IT professionals

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have reviewed: 

      •    General AWS knowledge such as Cloud Practitioner Essentials

      •    Familiarity with AWS core services

Course outline

 

Course 1: AWS Snowball Edge Process Overview and Use Cases

Section 1: Overview

      •    Lesson 1: How to Use This Course

      •    Lesson 2: Course Overview

Section 2: Data Transfer

      •    Lesson 3: Data Transfer Challenges and Snowball Edge Solutions

      •    Lesson 4: Use Cases: Data Transfer

Section 3: Compute and Storage

      •    Lesson 5: Snowball Edge Local Compute and Storage

      •    Lesson 6: Use Case: Local Compute and Storage

Section 4: Avoiding Incompatible Use

      •    Lesson 7: Avoiding Incompatible Use Scenarios

Section 5: Snowball Edge Processes

      •    Lesson 8: Process Steps and Expected Time Frames Overview

      •    Lesson 9: Configuring the Snowball Edge Job

      •    Lesson 10: Importing into Amazon S3

      •    Lesson 11: Exporting from Amazon S3

      •    Lesson 12: Local Compute and Storage Only

Section 6: Knowledge Check

      •    Lesson 13: Knowledge Check

Section 7: Additional Resources

      •    Lesson 14: Snowball Edge Additional Resources

 

Course 2: Understanding AWS Snowball Edge Features

Section 1: Overview

      •    Lesson 1: How to Use This Course

      •    Lesson 2: Course Overview

Section 2: Snowball Edge Introduction

      •    Lesson 3: Snowball Edge Model Overview

Section 3: Snowball Edge Features

      •    Lesson 4: Snowball Edge External Features

      •    Lesson 5: Snowball Edge Security Features

      •    Lesson 6: Network Connectivity and Storage

Section 4: Snowball Edge Device Type Comparison

      •    Lesson 7: Snowball Edge Device Type Specifications

      •    Lesson 8: Applying Snowball Edge Device Type for Use Cases

Section 5: Knowledge Check

      •    Lesson 9: Knowledge Check

Section 6: Additional Resources

      •    Lesson 10: Snowball Edge Additional Resources

 

Course 3: AWS Snowball Edge Integration with Other AWS Services

Section 1: Overview

      •    Lesson 1: How to Use This Course

      •    Lesson 2: Course Overview

Section 2: Integrated Compute Services

      •    Lesson 3: Overview of Snowball Edge and Compute Services Integration

      •    Lesson 4: Amazon EC2 Integration

      •    Lesson 5: Amazon EBS Integration

      •    Lesson 6: AWS Lambda Powered by AWS IoT Greengrass

Section 3: Integration with Additional AWS Services

      •    Lesson 7: Overview of Integration with Additional AWS Services

      •    Lesson 8: AWS CloudTrail

      •    Lesson 9: AWS Key Management Service

      •    Lesson 10: AWS Data Migration Service

      •    Lesson 11: Additional Service Integrations

Section 4: Knowledge Check

      •    Lesson 12: Knowledge Check

Section 5: Additional Resources

      •    Lesson 13: Snowball Edge Additional Resources