Matt Johannessen

Some organizations want to use AWS infrastructure and services but have workloads that can’t move to the cloud. Some have remote operations that need compute and storage but they have no internet access, or they require low-latency access to on-premises systems, or have data residency requirements that specify where they can store data.

Many organizations still have data they want to move to AWS, and have disconnected, remote field operations that require local computing capabilities. The AWS Snow family—AWS Snowball, AWS Snowball Edge, and AWS Snowmobile—helps you move large quantities of data offline and enables data processing and storage at edge locations when network capacity is constrained or nonexistent.

Many government agencies and commercial organizations come together to respond to natural disaster emergencies in the field. Such responders need computing resources at the tactical edge for communications, data gathering, and reconnaissance, often in dangerous or unstable environments.