Section - Migration

Question 1

What is the Snow Family?

Answer 1

• The snow family is a set of secure appliances that provide petabyte-scale data collection and processing solutions at the edge and migrate large-scale data into and out of AWS.
• They offer built-in computing capabilities, enabling customers to run their operations in remote locations that do not have data center access or reliable network connectivity.

Question 2

What is SnowCone?

Answer 2

• The smallest device in the snow family
• 8 TB storage, 4 GB of memory and 2 vCPUs
• Easily migrate data to AWS after you’ve processed it
• IoT sensor integration
• Perfect for edge computing where space and power are constrained.

Question 3

What is Snowball Edge?

Answer 3

• Jack of all Trades
• 48 TB to 81 TB in storage
• Storage, Compute, and GPU flavors
• Perfect for off-the-grid computing or migration to AWS.
• Best used in situations where you have slow to no internet, Snowball is faster and more secure in these situations.
• Encrypts all your data by default

Question 4

What is Snowmobile?

Answer 4

• Heavy hitter
• 100 PB of storage
• Designed for exabyte-scale data center migration

Question 5

What is Storage Gateway?

Answer 5

• Storage Gateway is a hybrid cloud storage service that helps you merge on-premises resources with the cloud.
• It can help with a one-time migration or a long-term pairing of your architecture with AWS.
• Storage Gateway is run locally as a VM on-premises.

Question 6

What is File Gateway?

Answer 6

• Caching Local Files
• NFS or SMB mount
• keep a local copy of recently used files
• Extend on-premises storage
• Helps with migrations to AWS

Question 7

What is Volume Gateway?

Answer 7

• Backup drives
• iSCSI mount
• Cached or stored mode
• Create EBS snapshots
• Perfect for backup or migration

Question 8

What is Tape Gateway?

Answer 8

• Replace physical tapes
• Doesn’t change the current workflow
• Encrypted communication

Question 9

What is DataSync?

Answer 9

• AWS DataSync is an agent-based solution for migrating on-premises storage to AWS.
• It allows you to easily move data between NFS amd SMB shares and AWS storage solutions.
• ExamTip: DataSync is for a one-time migration. use Storage Gateway for continous sync.
• NB: While DataSync usually uses an agent, an agent is not required when transferring between AWS storage services in the same AWS account.

Question 10

What is the AWS Transfer Family?

Answer 10

• The AWS Transfer Family allows you to easily move files in and out of S3 or EFS using Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP), File Transfer Protocol over SSL (FTPS), or the File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
• Legacy
  
  • This tool excels with bringing legacy application storage to the cloud.

Question 11

What is AWS Migration Hub?

Answer 11

• AWS Migration Hub gives you a single place to track the progress of your application migration to AWS.
• It integrates with Server Migration Service (SMS) and Database Migration Service(DMS).

Question 12

Server Migration Service?

Answer 12

• schedule migration
• convert VM to AMI in the cloud

Question 13

Database Migration Service?

Answer 13

• Convert database schema to Amazon Aurora
• Source: On-premises, in Amazon EC2, or Amazon RDS
• Schema conversion
  
  • It’s easy to migrate to Aurora or RDS