AWS Snowcone is the smallest member of the AWS Snow Family of edge computing, edge storage, and data transfer devices, weighing in at 4.5 pounds (2.1 kg) with 8 terabytes of usable storage. Snowcone is ruggedized, secure, and purpose-built for use outside of a traditional data center. Its small form factor makes it a perfect fit for tight spaces or where portability is a necessity. You can use Snowcone in backpacks on first responders, or for IoT, vehicular, and even drone use cases. You can execute compute applications at the edge, and you can ship the device with data to AWS for offline data transfer, or you can transfer data online with AWS DataSync from edge locations.
Like AWS Snowball, Snowcone has multiple layers of security and encryption. You can use either of these services to run edge computing workloads that use AWS IoT Greengrass or
Amazon EC2 instances, or to collect, process, and transfer data to AWS. Snowcone is designed for data migration needs up to dozens of terabytes (with up to 8 terabytes per device) and from space-constrained environments where AWS Snowball devices will not fit.
AWS Snowcone is currently available in the US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon) regions.
