Snowball is a petabyte-scale data transport solution that uses devices designed to be secure to transfer large amounts of data into and out of the AWS Cloud. Using Snowball addresses common challenges with large-scale data transfers including high network costs, long transfer times, and security concerns. Customers today use Snowball to migrate analytics data, genomics data, video libraries, image repositories, backups, and to archive part of data center shutdowns, tape replacement or...
The most valuable features of AWS Snowball for me are its security measures and its flexibility.
You are able to scale the solution vertically. It's very scalable.
It's a nice way of shipping a lot of data without using a network.
The way the data is moved is very clever. Also, the interface is very simple and user-friendly.