Q. How long does it take to transfer my data to a Snowmobile?
The Snowmobile is designed to transfer data at a rate up to 1 Tb/s, which means you could fill a 100PB Snowmobile in less than 10 days. The actual transfer speed may vary depending on the available local network capacity at your site and the speed of your on-premises storage devices. AWS will provide a way for you to test your local network throughput and the copy speed from your data sources to properly size the Snowmobile job, before dispatching the Snowmobile.
Q. What type of connections does Snowmobile provide?
The Snowmobile comes with a removable connector rack that needs to be mounted on one of your data center racks where it can be connected directly to your high-speed network backbone. The connector racks provides multiple 40Gb/s interfaces that can transfer up to 1 Tb/s in aggregate.
