AWS Snowblade is now available for US Department of Defense (DoD) Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) contract customers. The machine’s specifications seem to be unavailable to anyone outside the US military though. AWS Snowblade is intended to deliver AWS cloud computing, storage, and other hybrid services in remote areas, such as the DoD’s Denied, Disrupted, Intermittent, and Limited (DDIL) settings.
AWS Snowblade is the first device in the AWS Snow Family to fulfill U.S. Military Ruggedization Standards (MIL-STD-810H), allowing JWCC military clients to operate their operations in high temperatures, vibrations, and shocks.
AWS Snowblade is the densest computing device in the AWS Snow Family, supporting 208 vCPU in a portable, small 5U, half-rack width form-factor, enabling JWCC clients to execute demanding workloads at space, weight, and power (SWaP) restricted edge locations.
Low-Latency Applications
AWS Snowblade extends AWS infrastructure and services to the tactical edge, allowing low-latency applications to operate near to where data originates, is analyzed, and acted upon. Amazon EC2, AWS IAM, AWS CloudTrail, AWS IoT Greengrass, AWS Deep Learning AMIs, Amazon Sagemaker Neo, and AWS DataSync are among the AWS services supported by AWS Snowblade.
According to the cloud hyperscaler itself, customers may benefit from a consistent AWS experience by developing, deploying, and managing their applications from AWS Region to tactical edge locations by leveraging AWS hybrid cloud services such as AWS Snowblade.
The AWS Snowblade solution is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. AWS Snowblade is only available to clients of the United States Department of Defense under the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) contract.
