AWS Snowcone Comes To Singapore and Tokyo Regions

 

AWS Snowcone service has now been made available for customers in the Singapore and Tokyo regions. Customers in these regions can use the Snowcone service to deploy applications at the edge.

With this availability in AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore) and, AWS Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Regions customers can also collect data, process it locally, and move it to AWS either offline or online. Snowcone is now available in AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), Asia Pacific (Sydney), EU (Frankfurt), EU (Ireland), US East (N. Virginia), and US West (Oregon) Regions.

For data center IT equipment, edge locations do not have enough space, power, and cooling that is needed to run applications but with Snowcone (approximately 9 inches x 6 inches x 3 inches, weighs 4.5 lbs.) this problem is solved. The service supports operation via battery for mobility and runs on 2 CPUs, 4GB of memory, and 8 TB of usable storage.

Snowcone can be setup and managed through AWS OpsHub. DataSync comes pre-installed on the device that helps move data online to and from Amazon S3, Amazon EFS, or Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, as well as between AWS Storage services.