AWS Cloud Practitioner CLF-C02 Practice Question

AWS Snowball is part of the AWS Snow Family of devices that are physically shipped to the customer. Each device can store tens to hundreds of terabytes, and customers can order multiple devices to transfer data at petabyte scale. Because the transfer happens offline and the devices use tamper-evident enclosures with encryption, the solution is both secure and avoids the time and expense of sending data over a constrained network.

AWS DataSync moves data over the network, so the slow link would remain a bottleneck. AWS Direct Connect provides a dedicated network circuit but still relies on the customer's bandwidth and would not be economical for a one-time migration. Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose is designed for continuous streaming ingestion, not bulk offline transfers.