MCQ IN COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING

Detailed explanation-1: -AWS Snowcone is a small, rugged, and secure device offering edge computing, data storage, and data transfer on-the-go, in austere environment with little or no connectivity.

Detailed explanation-2: -AWS Snowball Edge is a type of Snowball device with on-board storage and compute power for select AWS capabilities. Snowball Edge can do local processing and edge-computing workloads in addition to transferring data between your local environment and the AWS Cloud.

Detailed explanation-3: -Snowball devices are physically rugged devices that are protected by the AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS). They secure and protect your data in transit. Regional shipping carriers transport Snowballs between Amazon S3 and your onsite data storage location.

Detailed explanation-4: -Snowball vs Snowmobile A Snowball is a rugged shipping container with a semi-trailer truck. While a single Snowball can store up to 80 TB of data, a single Snowmobile can store 100 PB of data, which is almost 1, 250 times the capacity of a single Snowball.