AWS Snowball Alternatives (September 2025)

AWS Transfer Family enables fully managed support for SFTP, FTPS and FTP to move large amounts of data into AWS.

AWS Direct Connect is a cloud service that links your network directly to AWS to deliver consistent, low-latency performance.

Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network (CDN) service that helps you distribute your static and dynamic content quickly and reliably with high speed performance, security, and developer ease-of-use.

Amazon S3 is cloud object storage with industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance. S3 is ideal for data lakes, mobile applications, backup and restore, archival, IoT devices, ML, AI, and analytics.

Introducing AWS Transfer for SFTP, a fully managed SFTP service for Amazon S3. AWS Transfer for SFTP enables you to easily move your file transfer workloads that use the Secure Shell File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) to AWS without needing to modify your applications or manage any SFTP servers.

Long-term, secure, durable Amazon S3 object storage classes for data archiving, starting at $1 per terabyte per month.

AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) is a highly resilient, secure cloud service that provides database discovery, schema conversion, data migration, and ongoing replication to and from a wide range of databases and analytics systems.

AWS Local Zones are a type of AWS infrastructure deployment that make it possible to run low latency applications closer to end users or on-premises installations in a specific geography.

AWS Elemental MediaConnect is a high-quality live video transport service that delivers video more efficiently than satellite or fiber-optic connections.

AWS Transit Gateway connects virtual private cloud and on-premises networks through a central hub. It acts as a highly scalable cloud router so you can easily add to your network.

Amazon EMR is a cloud big data platform for running large-scale distributed data processing jobs, interactive SQL queries, and machine learning applications using open-source analytics frameworks such as Apache Spark, Apache Hive, and Presto.

AWS Global Accelerator is a networking service that simplifies traffic management and improves performance by up to 60%.

Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) provides a simple, scalable fully managed elastic NFS file system for AWS compute instances.

AWS VPN establishes encrypted connections for hybrid connectivity networks with AWS Site-to-Site VPN and remote workforce access with AWS Client VPN.

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AWS Graviton processors deliver the best price performance for your cloud workloads, optimized for a range of general-purpose, compute, memory, and storage-intensive workloads.

Amazon Timestream is a fast, scalable, serverless time series database service for Internet of Things (IoT) and operational applications that helps you store and analyze time series data.

AWS IoT Core enables secure two-way communication between internet-connected devices and AWS services with device gateway and device SDK capabilities.

Amazon Redshift is a fast, fully managed cloud data warehouse that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze all your data.

Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) is an easy to use, high-performance cloud Storage Area Network (SAN).

The AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) provides a unified tool to manage your AWS services directly from the command line.

AWS PrivateLink provides private connectivity between VPCs, AWS services, and on-premises applications securely on AWS.

Amazon Athena is a serverless, interactive analytics service that provides a simplified and flexible way to analyze petabytes of data where it lives.

AWS Cloud WAN makes it easy to build, manage, and monitor a unified global network—connecting your cloud and on-premises resources.

AWS CloudHSM provides total access management control and protection for your encryption keys with secure and compliant hardware security modules (HSMs).

Driven by the need for greater productivity, lower costs, and more recently being able to scale a remote workforce, organizations around the world are moving their IT workloads to the cloud. Planning a move to the cloud requires upfront pre-migration planning; this is as important as the implementation itself. But it can be daunting to know where to start or what needs to be in place for a successful migration. The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud Adoption Readiness Tool (CART) can help provide insight into your level of readiness and what you can do to improve it.

Run AWS infrastructure and services on premises for a truly consistent hybrid experience.

Use the AWS Schema Conversion Tool to make heterogeneous database migrations predictable. Learn more about the supported conversions and how to download today.

AWS IoT Greengrass is an open-source edge runtime and cloud service that helps you build, deploy, and manage intelligent device software.

Amazon EC2 provides secure, resizable compute in the cloud, offering the broadest choice of processor, storage, networking, OS, and purchase model.

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams is a fully managed, serverless data streaming service that stores and ingests various streaming data in real time at any scale.

Backblaze B2 provides unlimited data storage in the cloud at 1/5th the cost of Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.

Amazon Web Services offers reliable, scalable, and inexpensive cloud computing services. Free to join, pay only for what you use.

AWS Deep Learning AMIs provides ML practitioners with curated, secure frameworks, dependencies, and tools to accelerate and scale deep learning in the cloud.

Amazon SimpleDB is a simple database storage solution that allows developers to simply store & query data items via web services requests, saving time.

Amazon MemoryDB is a Redis OSS-compatible, durable, in-memory database service that delivers ultra-fast performance.

AWS Device Farm is an application testing service that allows you to test iOS, Android, and web applications on real smartphones, tablets and desktop web browsers.

Fully managed Lustre file system integrated with S3 for workloads that require fast access to compute and high throughput such as high performance computing (HPC), media rendering, and machine learning (ML) training data sets.

AWS Glue is a serverless data integration service that makes it easy to discover, prepare, integrate, and modernize the extract, transform, and load (ETL) process.

AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) is an open-source software development framework used to model and provision your cloud application resources with familiar programming languages.

AWS Ground Station is a fully managed service that lets you control satellite communications, downlink and process satellite data, and scale your satellite operations quickly, easily and cost-effectively without having to worry about building or managing your own ground station infrastructure

Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) is a cost-effective, flexible, and scalable email service provider that allows developers to send email from within any application.

Fully managed Windows file system for business applications.

AWS IoT Device Management allows you to securely onboard, organize, monitor, and remotely manage IoT devices at scale.

IBM Cloud Object Storage is a scalable and resilient managed data service on IBM Cloud, offering an alternative to block and file storage.

AWS Secrets Manager allows you to rotate, manage, and retrieve database credentials, API keys, and other secrets through their lifecycle.

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is a service that lets you launch AWS resources in a logically isolated virtual network that you define.

AWS App Mesh is an application networking service mesh that lets you more easily monitor and control communications across services.

Amazon Macie is a data security service that uses machine learning (ML) and pattern matching to discover and help protect your sensitive data.

AWS Elemental MediaPackage is a video origination and packaging service that securely and reliably delivers streaming content at scale.

Amazon SWF is a cloud process flow management application that gives developers tools to coordinate applications across multiple machines.

AWS Clean Rooms helps companies and their partners more securely analyze and collaborate on their collective datasets without sharing or copying one another’s underlying data.

AWS IoT SiteWise makes it easy to collect, organize, and analyze data from industrial equipment at scale.

The broadest selection of relational and NoSQL purpose-built databases, fully managed, high performance, and ready to scale.

AWS Batch allows developers, scientists, and engineers to efficiently process hundreds of thousands of batch and machine learning computing jobs on AWS.

Amazon GameSparks is a fully managed game backend service that manages and scales your cloud infrastructure.

A fully-managed, cloud-native directory from Amazon Web Services (AWS)

AWS IoT lets you securely connect and manage devices, collect and analyze device data, and build and deploy solutions that drive greater business value.

AWS Compute Optimizer recommends more efficient AWS compute resources for your workloads to reduce costs and improve performance.

AWS Lake Formation makes it easier to centrally govern, secure, and globally share data for analytics and machine learning.

AWS App Runner helps you deploy and scale from your source code or container image to a secure web application on AWS.

Cloud Volumes ONTAP enables you to optimize your cloud storage costs and performance while enhancing data protection, security, and compliance.

Amazon Neptune is a fast, fully managed database service powering graph use cases such as identity graphs, knowledge graphs, and fraud detection.

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Amazon SQS fully managed message queuing makes it easy to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications.

AWS IoT Analytics makes it simple to run and operationalize analytics on massive volumes of IoT data, without the cost and complexity of building an IoT analytics platform.

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AWS IoT Device Defender makes it easier to maintain, manage, and configure security policies for all your IoT devices. Get the tools to identify and respond to security issues.

Collect streaming data, create a real-time data pipeline, and analyze real-time video and data streams, log analytics, event analytics, and IoT analytics.

Amazon AppFlow is an integration service that enables you to securely transfer data between SaaS applications and AWS services without code.

Cloudian provides exabyte-scale storage for your capacity-intensive workloads: S3-compatible storage for on-prem, hybrid cloud, and multi-cloud.

CloudEndure, an AWS Company, provides disaster recovery and cloud migration to AWS from any physical, virtual, or cloud-based infrastructure.

AWS IoT Events lets you monitor your equipment or device fleets for failures or changes in operation, and trigger actions when such events occur.

Amazon MSK is a fully managed, secure, and highly available Apache Kafka service that makes it easy to ingest and process streaming data in real time at a low cost.

Amazon MQ is a managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ that simplifies setup and operation of open-source message brokers on AWS.

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Easily move and store files within the cloud and automatically scale growth up to 8 Exabytes, eliminating the need to provision capacity in advance.

AWS Shield is a managed DDoS protection service that safeguards applications running on AWS

Amazon Lightsail is an easy-to-use virtual private server (VPS) that offers simple management of cloud resources such as containers, at low, predictable prices.

IBM Cloud Block Storage is a high-performance cloud data storage service on IBM Cloud.

An open, massively scalable, software-defined storage system that efficiently manages petabytes of data.

AWS CloudFormation is an infrastructure as code (IaC) service that allows you to easily model, provision, and manage AWS and third-party resources.

CloudFuze makes it simple & cost-effective for businesses to migrate their cloud office environment with 100% replication, without downtime.

AWS Control Tower provides a single location to set up a well-architected, multi-account environment to govern your AWS workloads with rules for security, operations, and compliance.

Alibaba Cloud Object Storage Service (OSS) provides industry-leading scalability.Fully managed object storage service to store and access any amount of data from anywhere.

SFTPCloud is a scalable and highly-available service for creating secure, managed SFTP and FTP servers powered by the cloud storage of your choice.

AWS Systems Manager is a secure end-to-end management solution for resources on AWS and in multicloud and hybrid environments.

Connect Active Directory to AWS resources or set up a new directory on AWS for your directory-aware workloads.

Cloud migration between cloud storage providers: Google drive, Dropbox and more! Sync cloud services, Migrate cloud data.

Capture, process, and store video streams & media streams for computer vision apps, smart home apps, smart city apps, and real-time video analytics.

Store application data on durable, high-performance block volumes where data stored is persistent meaning volumes can be connected, detached and moved as needed, even beyond the lifespan of the current compute instance.

Object Storage Service (OBS) provides secure, stable, and virtually infinite scalable object storage. You can store massive amounts of data on OBS.

AWS Cloud9 is a cloud-based integrated development environment (IDE) that lets you write, run, and debug your code with just a browser.

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Firebolt is a complete redesign of the cloud data warehouse for the era of cloud and data lakes. Data warehousing with extreme speed & elasticity at scale.

Snowflake enables organizations to learn, build, and connect with their data-driven peers. Collaborate, build data apps & power diverse workloads in the AI Data Cloud.

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