The AWS Snow Family consists of physical devices including Snowcone and Snowball that provide local storage and edge computing capabilities. These devices are designed to move multi-terabyte to petabyte-scale data sets into and out of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud, particularly from locations with limited or no internet connectivity.
Brand Authority Index (BAI): 92/100
Archetype: Challenger
Category: Cloud Infrastructure Hardware
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Last analyzed: April 14, 2026
Founded: 2015
Headquarters: Seattle, WA