AWS Snowball Edge | Billing Flashcards
Can I use Greengrass on Snowball Edge from any AWS Region?
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AWS Snowball Edge | Storage
Currently, you must use Greengrass on a Snowball Edge in the regions are supported by the Greengrass service. For a list of Greengrass supported regions, see the Region Table. In regions that only support AWS Snowball Edge and not AWS Greengrass, you can still create jobs for Snowball Edge devices, however they won’t have access to the compute functionality.
How much does it cost to use Snowball Edge?
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AWS Snowball Edge | Storage
Each Snowball Edge job costs a flat fee of $300 for device handling and operations at AWS data centers. The $300 job fee includes 10 day of use at your site. The day that the device is received and the day that the device is shipped are not counted towards these 10 days. Beyond that, a Snowball Edge costs $30/day for each extra day that it is at your site. Data transferred into AWS does not incur any data transfer fees, and Standard Amazon S3 pricing applies for data stored. Exporting data starts at $0.03/GB. In addition, shipping charges are calculated based on standard carrier rates for the shipping location and shipping option (e.g. 2-day, overnight) you choose. The default shipping option is 2-day.
Pricing Example:
The pricing example below illustrates what you can expect to pay for a 90TB data transfer into AWS using a single 100TB Snowball Edge device, where you kept the device for a total of 15 days (received the device on day 1 and returned the device on day 15).
The day the device is received and the day the device is shipped back to AWS are considered shipping days, and are not counted toward the 10 free days in this case. This means you had the device onsite for a total of 13 days, and 10 out of those days are free. Therefore you used 3 extra days to transfer your data.
Service fee: $300
Daily charges (3 days x $30/day): $90
Shipping charges: vary by distance
Data transfer cost: $0
Am I charged for Amazon S3 usage if I use the S3-compatible endpoint on Snowball Edge?
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AWS Snowball Edge | Storage
No, you don’t incur additional charges for using the S3-compatible endpoint on Snowball Edge. If your Snowball Edge transfers data into Amazon S3, standard S3 request and storage charges will apply.
