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Gajendra R.

System Specialist

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

7/13/2021

"AWS Snowball Review"

5/5

What do you like best about AWS Snowball?

You can transfer your terabyte if data from on promises to cloud with out using the your network. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Snowball?

It's not a dislikes, since a device will come to you and you upload the data and revert back to aws is bit time consuming process Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AP

Verified User in Program Development

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/21/2021

"aseome tool for migration big data"

5/5

What do you like best about AWS Snowball?

we can transfer large scale-data to AWS using Snowball Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Snowball?

we have to wait still snowball will be arrived Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering AWS Snowball:

nice tool if you want to use move big data to AWS Snowball is a nice tool sometimes you can use other tools which provided AWS but this is for large transfer Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS Snowball solving and how is that benefiting you?

we have recently moved big data to AWS with a snowball. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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viswanadha Reddy c.

Lead Storage Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/9/2019

"Better solution for data movement"

4/5

Describe the project or task AWS Snowball helped with:

Helped in moving 10s of TB from onprwm to cloud in lesser time than expected Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about AWS Snowball?

It's easy and reliable to move large amounts of data with less time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Snowball?

The device is not having any dislikes, however was take some time to send the device (hope they are working on it to improve . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering AWS Snowball:

It's easy and reliable to manage Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS Snowball solving and how is that benefiting you?

Data movement Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Jim Z.

Agile Product Owner

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/16/2020

"What a Piece of Junk and the support is terrible!!!!"

0/5

Describe the project or task AWS Snowball helped with:

We ordered a 100 TB snowball it took 4 months to copy the data. We wrote and told them we needed urgent help and all we got was e mail responses and crickets. Than the time on the Snowball expired. Than we had to send it back and order another snowball. The new snowball is saying 88 days to copy our files. DO NOT USE AMAZON SNOWBALL. It takes forever to copy from SAN and the customer service STINKS!!! Even when we marked the request as urgent no one called us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about AWS Snowball?

None of it, this product stinks and the customer service is horrible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

PG

Verified User in Government Administration

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/4/2019

"Snow ball usage"

5/5

Describe the project or task AWS Snowball helped with:

On of my employers planned to move to cloud partially and used snowball for data transfer Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about AWS Snowball?

Snow ball comes in 50TB and 80TB sizes and very useful to copy data onto AWS data centers. Its very robust and secure. Data transfer speed is fast and the highlight. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Snowball?

When we request the snow ball we have to give the destination in the AWS environment (S3 bucket etc.) location where the data has to be copied and it cant be changed at any point after that. To access it one need to know shell scripting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering AWS Snowball:

make sure you give the correct destination of data migration and know some shell scripting Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is AWS Snowball solving and how is that benefiting you?

The employer had slow net connection and huge volumes of data. Moving data using APIs or DX Connect wad not going to help and snowball was very effective. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

PL

Verified User in Libraries

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/27/2018

"Easy to Use Data Migration for Small Nonprofit"

4/5

Describe the project or task AWS Snowball helped with:

The nonprofit I work for employs 51 professionals across a variety of departments (education, events, development, etc). Given our limited size, we do not have on-site IT. The vast majority of IT responsibilities falls upon the Digital Library team I am a part of and our off-site IT contractors. When task with migrating 20 TB of assets from a harddrive into our S3, we knew we did not have the infrastrucute or services to perform such a migration and at a reasonable pace. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about AWS Snowball?

The support the Snowball provides for small organizations to provide significant data migration. Our TBs migrated via Snowball are being used in our Digital Library as we speak. The quick and easy transfer allowed us to provide access to TBs of information for our users in significantly less time than if we had done it on our own. In the Library and Archives world, accessibility, and online accessibility, is key. The Snowball greatly expedites this goal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about AWS Snowball?

When we first used the Snowball we were surprised at how difficult it was to use. Based on what we were told by AWS representatives, we thought we could manage the upload onto the Snowball without help from our off-site IT contractors. This proved to be wrong. We thankfully had the backup help we needed, but it would be helpful to future users to know what level of skill would be required to run the Snowball. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering AWS Snowball:

Make sure you have an IT professional on staff before use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

PF

Verified User in Financial Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

12/4/2018

"These kind of snowballs aren't cold but they are cost effective and apparently indestructible!! "

4.5/5

Describe the project or task AWS Snowball helped with:

There was a need to shift a significant amount of data from one client to another, where connection to the cloud may or may not be possible due to security and a lack of network access. Thank goodness for the external hard drive that literally never be filled up because the client was able to take the data from the site and load it (not the technical term) into the snowball, where they could take it and attach it to the clients local network for migration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about AWS Snowball?

If you need to securely and quickly transfer data to AWS, Snowball is the right choice. Especially if your schedule doesn't allow time to make expensive upgrades to the network infrastructure. It's also great for secondary and third locations because they often have large backlogs of data and can be in a physically isolated environment. All reasons snowball can help save the day! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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kurt o.

systems architect

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/28/2018

"snowball migration review"

5/5

Describe the project or task AWS Snowball helped with:

data migration of key data from on-prem to aws Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about AWS Snowball?

ease and quickness of getting a snowbll on sidte Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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david s.

Senior Release Manager

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/29/2018

"Move large amounts of data"

5/5

Describe the project or task AWS Snowball helped with:

This service is simple and effective. You plug plug in the box and move and scan a few settings and you are able to move the data from one node to the next. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about AWS Snowball?

Simple and effective moving Terabytes of data from our on prem area to the cloud. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JM

Jim M.

Program Manager

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/29/2018

"So easy to use"

4/5

Describe the project or task AWS Snowball helped with:

Migrated data set to AWS from on-premise servers. Simple and straight foward to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about AWS Snowball?

the whitepapers on the service were great to get an understanding of the service Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.