A few days ago at the AWS Summit in New York there was an announcement which in my honest opinion went very noticeably under the radar and i don’t think many people understand exactly what it means. The announcement i’m talking about is this one EC2 Compute Instances for Snowball Edge . Let’s dig into the announcement. There are new instance types released the sbe1 family which can been on AWS Snowball Edge device which essentially a computer with a lot of disks inside.