The benefits aren't entirely clear.<p>> Many organizations are concerned that once they have moved all their data to the cloud it will be both expensive and time-consuming to retrieve the data if needed. Snowball Edge offers all customers a fast and inexpensive way to transfer large amounts of data both into and out of AWS.<p>Ingress to S3 is already free, the biggest problem is egress and that's left quite ambiguous. The pricing page points back to S3, which says "it depends". Where exactly does Snowball go within AWS itself? Is it classified as EC2? Is egress to the snowball free if it's in the same region as the data? Can the region be chosen?
This is a somewhat odd use-case, but does anyone know - do you <i></i>have<i></i> to transfer the data to S3? What if I just needed an extra 100-300TB of local storage for 10 days? Let's say for a backup during a move, or something like that. The description reads like this is possible, even if it's an unusual way to use the device.
> All encryption is performed on the device itself<p>Mm. This could be a MITM/"tap" attack vector, I guess?<p>[*] <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/snowball-edge/details/" rel="nofollow">https://aws.amazon.com/snowball-edge/details/</a>