AWS Snowcone

#1

Post by jeffbarr » Wed, Jun 17, 2020, 4:56 PM UTC

Re: AWS Snowcone

#2

Post by jedieaston » Wed, Jun 17, 2020, 5:17 PM UTC

This is really cool. Is there documentation somewhere of what exactly the compute hardware looks like inside? 2 CPUs and 4GB of RAM, but is it x86 or ARM (I presume x86, but since it has to be on battery power..)? What size of EC2 instance can fit on there?

Re: AWS Snowcone

#3

Post by lukevp » Wed, Jun 17, 2020, 5:18 PM UTC

Is this the beginning of mini self-hosted clouds where the orchestration happens in a web UI but the compute/storage is local? Like a cheap version of Azure Stack? I get that you can’t keep the snowcone, but if you could, it would be a little VM host with local storage on your LAN that could let you run everything internal.

Re: AWS Snowcone

#4

Post by txcwpalpha » Wed, Jun 17, 2020, 5:20 PM UTC

jedieaston wrote: post #2

This is really cool. Is there documentation somewhere of what exactly the compute hardware looks like inside? 2 CPUs and 4GB of RAM, but is it x86 or ARM (I presume x86, but since it has to be on battery power..)? What size of EC2 instance can fit on there?

From the link, instance types are:

- snc1.micro, CPUs: 1, memory: 1 GiB

- snc1.small, CPUs: 1, memory: 2 GiB

- snc1.medium, CPUs: 2, memory: 4 GiB

Re: AWS Snowcone

#5

Post by wiredfool » Wed, Jun 17, 2020, 5:20 PM UTC

Tactical edge computing?

Re: AWS Snowcone

#6

Post by perrohunter » Wed, Jun 17, 2020, 5:21 PM UTC

What’s the price ?

Re: AWS Snowcone

#7

Post by jackklika » Wed, Jun 17, 2020, 5:22 PM UTC

I think that local storage of personal data ("data most important to you") will be a huge trend in the next few years for both homes and offices, especially if they can back up data to other trusted devices (in other homes and offices of trusted people). As always the problem is going to be usability - the AWS ecosystem is not friendly to non-techies.

Re: AWS Snowcone

#8

Post by benatkin » Wed, Jun 17, 2020, 5:22 PM UTC

txcwpalpha wrote: post #4

jedieaston wrote: post #2

This is really cool. Is there documentation somewhere of what exactly the compute hardware looks like inside? 2 CPUs and 4GB of RAM, but is it x86 or ARM (I presume x86, but since it has to be on battery power..)? What size of EC2 instance can fit on there?

From the link, instance types are: - snc1.micro, CPUs: 1, memory: 1 GiB - snc1.small, CPUs: 1, memory: 2 GiB - snc1.medium, CPUs: 2, memory: 4 GiB

The table says CPUs, not vCPUs. Unless they're using single threaded single core processors, I think snc1.medium would equal either at least 4 vCPUs. I don't think they use the term vCPU for Snowcone so in reality it has zero vCPUs. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/instance...

Re: AWS Snowcone

#9

Post by notatoad » Wed, Jun 17, 2020, 5:23 PM UTC

perrohunter wrote: post #6

What’s the price ?

https://aws.amazon.com/snowcone/pricing/

Re: AWS Snowcone

#10

Post by jedieaston » Wed, Jun 17, 2020, 5:23 PM UTC

txcwpalpha wrote: post #4

jedieaston wrote: post #2

This is really cool. Is there documentation somewhere of what exactly the compute hardware looks like inside? 2 CPUs and 4GB of RAM, but is it x86 or ARM (I presume x86, but since it has to be on battery power..)? What size of EC2 instance can fit on there?

From the link, instance types are: - snc1.micro, CPUs: 1, memory: 1 GiB - snc1.small, CPUs: 1, memory: 2 GiB - snc1.medium, CPUs: 2, memory: 4 GiB

Whoops, missed that entirely. Thanks!