Amazon Brings EC2 To Enterprise Datacenter Through AWS Snowball Edge
AWS announced that it is adding the ability to run Amazon EC2 instances on Snowball Edge, the portable device meant for bulk data ingestion into the cloud.
Announced at the re:Invent conference in 2016, Snowball Edge is an extension of the purpose-built data transfer device known as Snowball. The fundamental difference between Snowball and Snowball Edge lies in the functionality. The former is just a bulk import/export appliance while the later exposes endpoints compatible with Amazon S3, AWS Lambda, and even NFS. With the addition of Amazon EC2, Snowball Edge can now run full-blown virtual machines. It is also possible to connect multiple Snowball Edge devices to form a local cluster that is centrally managed from AWS Console.
In its current form, Snowball Edge qualifies to become a hyper converged infrastructure appliance. The storage layer is exposed through an S3-compatible API while compute is available through EC2 and Lambda. The device supports 10GBase-T network connection, 10/25Gb SFP28 and 40Gb QSFP+ copper, and optical networking for lightning-fast data transfer.
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