Amazon Snow Family
AWS Snow Family is a collection of physical devices and capacity points that help customers with data transfers in and out of AWS when network capacity is limited or unavailable. It includes Snowcone, Snowball, and Snowmobile devices for edge computing and offline data migration.
Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.
API Evangelist profiles Amazon Snow Family the way a machine reads it — 335 machine-readable artifacts across 27 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Amazon Snow Family scores 68.4/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile Amazon Snow Family
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Amazon Snow Family. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 27
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Amazon Snow Family #X Amz Target=AWSIESnowballJobManagementService.CancelCluster API
The #X Amz Target=AWSIESnowballJobManagementService.CancelCluster API from Amazon Snow Family — 1 operation(s) for #x amz target=awsiesnowballjobmanagementservice.cancelcluster.
Amazon Snow Family #X Amz Target=AWSIESnowballJobManagementService.CancelJob API
The #X Amz Target=AWSIESnowballJobManagementService.CancelJob API from Amazon Snow Family — 1 operation(s) for #x amz target=awsiesnowballjobmanagementservice.canceljob.
Amazon Snow Family #X Amz Target=AWSIESnowballJobManagementService.CreateAddress API
The #X Amz Target=AWSIESnowballJobManagementService.CreateAddress API from Amazon Snow Family — 1 operation(s) for #x amz target=awsiesnowballjobmanagementservice.createaddress.
Amazon Snow Family #X Amz Target=AWSIESnowballJobManagementService.CreateCluster API
The #X Amz Target=AWSIESnowballJobManagementService.CreateCluster API from Amazon Snow Family — 1 operation(s) for #x amz target=awsiesnowballjobmanagementservice.createcluster.
Amazon Snow Family #X Amz Target=AWSIESnowballJobManagementService.CreateJob API
The #X Amz Target=AWSIESnowballJobManagementService.CreateJob API from Amazon Snow Family — 1 operation(s) for #x amz target=awsiesnowballjobmanagementservice.createjob.
Amazon Snow Family #X Amz Target=AWSIESnowballJobManagementService.CreateLongTermPricing API
The #X Amz Target=AWSIESnowballJobManagementService.CreateLongTermPricing API from Amazon Snow Family — 1 operation(s) for #x amz target=awsiesnowballjobmanagementservice.create...
Amazon Snow Family #X Amz Target=AWSIESnowballJobManagementService.CreateReturnShippingLabel API
The #X Amz Target=AWSIESnowballJobManagementService.CreateReturnShippingLabel API from Amazon Snow Family — 1 operation(s) for #x amz target=awsiesnowballjobmanagementservice.cr...
Amazon Snow Family #X Amz Target=AWSIESnowballJobManagementService.DescribeAddress API
The #X Amz Target=AWSIESnowballJobManagementService.DescribeAddress API from Amazon Snow Family — 1 operation(s) for #x amz target=awsiesnowballjobmanagementservice.describeaddr...
Amazon Snow Family #X Amz Target=AWSIESnowballJobManagementService.DescribeAddresses API
The #X Amz Target=AWSIESnowballJobManagementService.DescribeAddresses API from Amazon Snow Family — 1 operation(s) for #x amz target=awsiesnowballjobmanagementservice.describead...
Amazon Snow Family #X Amz Target=AWSIESnowballJobManagementService.DescribeCluster API
The #X Amz Target=AWSIESnowballJobManagementService.DescribeCluster API from Amazon Snow Family — 1 operation(s) for #x amz target=awsiesnowballjobmanagementservice.describeclus...
Amazon Snow Family #X Amz Target=AWSIESnowballJobManagementService.DescribeJob API
The #X Amz Target=AWSIESnowballJobManagementService.DescribeJob API from Amazon Snow Family — 1 operation(s) for #x amz target=awsiesnowballjobmanagementservice.describejob.
Amazon Snow Family #X Amz Target=AWSIESnowballJobManagementService.DescribeReturnShippingLabel API
The #X Amz Target=AWSIESnowballJobManagementService.DescribeReturnShippingLabel API from Amazon Snow Family — 1 operation(s) for #x amz target=awsiesnowballjobmanagementservice....
Amazon Snow Family #X Amz Target=AWSIESnowballJobManagementService.GetJobManifest API
The #X Amz Target=AWSIESnowballJobManagementService.GetJobManifest API from Amazon Snow Family — 1 operation(s) for #x amz target=awsiesnowballjobmanagementservice.getjobmanifest.
Amazon Snow Family #X Amz Target=AWSIESnowballJobManagementService.GetJobUnlockCode API
The #X Amz Target=AWSIESnowballJobManagementService.GetJobUnlockCode API from Amazon Snow Family — 1 operation(s) for #x amz target=awsiesnowballjobmanagementservice.getjobunloc...
Amazon Snow Family #X Amz Target=AWSIESnowballJobManagementService.GetSnowballUsage API
The #X Amz Target=AWSIESnowballJobManagementService.GetSnowballUsage API from Amazon Snow Family — 1 operation(s) for #x amz target=awsiesnowballjobmanagementservice.getsnowball...
Amazon Snow Family #X Amz Target=AWSIESnowballJobManagementService.GetSoftwareUpdates API
The #X Amz Target=AWSIESnowballJobManagementService.GetSoftwareUpdates API from Amazon Snow Family — 1 operation(s) for #x amz target=awsiesnowballjobmanagementservice.getsoftwa...
Amazon Snow Family #X Amz Target=AWSIESnowballJobManagementService.ListClusterJobs API
The #X Amz Target=AWSIESnowballJobManagementService.ListClusterJobs API from Amazon Snow Family — 1 operation(s) for #x amz target=awsiesnowballjobmanagementservice.listclusterj...
Amazon Snow Family #X Amz Target=AWSIESnowballJobManagementService.ListClusters API
The #X Amz Target=AWSIESnowballJobManagementService.ListClusters API from Amazon Snow Family — 1 operation(s) for #x amz target=awsiesnowballjobmanagementservice.listclusters.
Amazon Snow Family #X Amz Target=AWSIESnowballJobManagementService.ListCompatibleImages API
The #X Amz Target=AWSIESnowballJobManagementService.ListCompatibleImages API from Amazon Snow Family — 1 operation(s) for #x amz target=awsiesnowballjobmanagementservice.listcom...
Amazon Snow Family #X Amz Target=AWSIESnowballJobManagementService.ListJobs API
The #X Amz Target=AWSIESnowballJobManagementService.ListJobs API from Amazon Snow Family — 1 operation(s) for #x amz target=awsiesnowballjobmanagementservice.listjobs.
Amazon Snow Family #X Amz Target=AWSIESnowballJobManagementService.ListLongTermPricing API
The #X Amz Target=AWSIESnowballJobManagementService.ListLongTermPricing API from Amazon Snow Family — 1 operation(s) for #x amz target=awsiesnowballjobmanagementservice.listlong...
Amazon Snow Family #X Amz Target=AWSIESnowballJobManagementService.ListPickupLocations API
The #X Amz Target=AWSIESnowballJobManagementService.ListPickupLocations API from Amazon Snow Family — 1 operation(s) for #x amz target=awsiesnowballjobmanagementservice.listpick...
Amazon Snow Family #X Amz Target=AWSIESnowballJobManagementService.ListServiceVersions API
The #X Amz Target=AWSIESnowballJobManagementService.ListServiceVersions API from Amazon Snow Family — 1 operation(s) for #x amz target=awsiesnowballjobmanagementservice.listserv...
Amazon Snow Family #X Amz Target=AWSIESnowballJobManagementService.UpdateCluster API
The #X Amz Target=AWSIESnowballJobManagementService.UpdateCluster API from Amazon Snow Family — 1 operation(s) for #x amz target=awsiesnowballjobmanagementservice.updatecluster.
Amazon Snow Family #X Amz Target=AWSIESnowballJobManagementService.UpdateJob API
The #X Amz Target=AWSIESnowballJobManagementService.UpdateJob API from Amazon Snow Family — 1 operation(s) for #x amz target=awsiesnowballjobmanagementservice.updatejob.
Amazon Snow Family #X Amz Target=AWSIESnowballJobManagementService.UpdateJobShipmentState API
The #X Amz Target=AWSIESnowballJobManagementService.UpdateJobShipmentState API from Amazon Snow Family — 1 operation(s) for #x amz target=awsiesnowballjobmanagementservice.updat...
Amazon Snow Family #X Amz Target=AWSIESnowballJobManagementService.UpdateLongTermPricing API
The #X Amz Target=AWSIESnowballJobManagementService.UpdateLongTermPricing API from Amazon Snow Family — 1 operation(s) for #x amz target=awsiesnowballjobmanagementservice.update...
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Pricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Amazon Snow Family Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Features 4
The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.
Notable capabilities this provider offers.
Petabyte-scale Data Transfer
Transfer large datasets to AWS using physical devices.
Edge Computing
Run compute workloads at the edge with Snowball Edge and Snowcone.
Cluster Mode
Use multiple Snow Family devices as a cluster for more storage and compute.
Encryption
All data is automatically encrypted with 256-bit encryption.
Semantic Vocabularies 1
JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Amazon Snow Family Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 2
Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.
Amazon Snow Family API Rules
SPECTRALAmazon Snow Family API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 102
Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
Address
JSON SCHEMAAddressType
JSON SCHEMACancelClusterRequest
JSON SCHEMACancelClusterResult
JSON SCHEMACancelJobRequest
JSON SCHEMACancelJobResult
JSON SCHEMAClusterListEntry
JSON SCHEMAClusterMetadata
JSON SCHEMAClusterState
JSON SCHEMACompatibleImage
JSON SCHEMACreateAddressRequest
JSON SCHEMACreateAddressResult
JSON SCHEMACreateClusterRequest
JSON SCHEMACreateClusterResult
JSON SCHEMACreateJobRequest
JSON SCHEMACreateJobResult
JSON SCHEMACreateLongTermPricingRequest
JSON SCHEMACreateLongTermPricingResult
JSON SCHEMACreateReturnShippingLabelRequest
JSON SCHEMACreateReturnShippingLabelResult
JSON SCHEMADataTransfer
JSON SCHEMADependentService
JSON SCHEMADescribeAddressRequest
JSON SCHEMADescribeAddressResult
JSON SCHEMADescribeAddressesRequest
JSON SCHEMADescribeAddressesResult
JSON SCHEMADescribeClusterRequest
JSON SCHEMADescribeClusterResult
JSON SCHEMADescribeJobRequest
JSON SCHEMADescribeJobResult
JSON SCHEMADescribeReturnShippingLabelRequest
JSON SCHEMADescribeReturnShippingLabelResult
JSON SCHEMADeviceConfiguration
JSON SCHEMADeviceServiceName
JSON SCHEMAEc2AmiResource
JSON SCHEMAEKSOnDeviceServiceConfiguration
JSON SCHEMAEventTriggerDefinition
JSON SCHEMAGetJobManifestRequest
JSON SCHEMAGetJobManifestResult
JSON SCHEMAGetJobUnlockCodeRequest
JSON SCHEMAGetJobUnlockCodeResult
JSON SCHEMAGetSnowballUsageRequest
JSON SCHEMAGetSnowballUsageResult
JSON SCHEMAGetSoftwareUpdatesRequest
JSON SCHEMAGetSoftwareUpdatesResult
JSON SCHEMAImpactLevel
JSON SCHEMAINDTaxDocuments
JSON SCHEMAJobListEntry
JSON SCHEMAJobLogs
JSON SCHEMAJobMetadata
JSON SCHEMAJobResource
JSON SCHEMAJobState
JSON SCHEMAJobType
JSON SCHEMAKeyRange
JSON SCHEMALambdaResource
JSON SCHEMAListClusterJobsRequest
JSON SCHEMAListClusterJobsResult
JSON SCHEMAListClustersRequest
JSON SCHEMAListClustersResult
JSON SCHEMAListCompatibleImagesRequest
JSON SCHEMAListCompatibleImagesResult
JSON SCHEMAListJobsRequest
JSON SCHEMAListJobsResult
JSON SCHEMAListLongTermPricingRequest
JSON SCHEMAListLongTermPricingResult
JSON SCHEMAListPickupLocationsRequest
JSON SCHEMAListPickupLocationsResult
JSON SCHEMAListServiceVersionsRequest
JSON SCHEMAListServiceVersionsResult
JSON SCHEMALongTermPricingListEntry
JSON SCHEMALongTermPricingType
JSON SCHEMANFSOnDeviceServiceConfiguration
JSON SCHEMANotification
JSON SCHEMAOnDeviceServiceConfiguration
JSON SCHEMAPickupDetails
JSON SCHEMARemoteManagement
JSON SCHEMAS3OnDeviceServiceConfiguration
JSON SCHEMAS3Resource
JSON SCHEMAServiceName
JSON SCHEMAServiceVersion
JSON SCHEMAShipment
JSON SCHEMAShipmentState
JSON SCHEMAShippingDetails
JSON SCHEMAShippingLabelStatus
JSON SCHEMAShippingOption
JSON SCHEMASnowballCapacity
JSON SCHEMASnowballType
JSON SCHEMASnowconeDeviceConfiguration
JSON SCHEMAStorageUnit
JSON SCHEMATargetOnDeviceService
JSON SCHEMATaxDocuments
JSON SCHEMATGWOnDeviceServiceConfiguration
JSON SCHEMATransferOption
JSON SCHEMAUpdateClusterRequest
JSON SCHEMAUpdateClusterResult
JSON SCHEMAUpdateJobRequest
JSON SCHEMAUpdateJobResult
JSON SCHEMAUpdateJobShipmentStateRequest
JSON SCHEMAUpdateJobShipmentStateResult
JSON SCHEMAUpdateLongTermPricingRequest
JSON SCHEMAUpdateLongTermPricingResult
JSON SCHEMAWirelessConnection
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JSON Structure 102
JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.
JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.
Amazon Snow Family Address Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Snow Family Address Type Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Snow Family Cancel Cluster Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Snow Family Cancel Cluster Result Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Snow Family Cancel Job Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Snow Family Cancel Job Result Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Snow Family Cluster List Entry Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Snow Family Cluster Metadata Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Snow Family Cluster State Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Snow Family Compatible Image Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Snow Family Create Address Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Snow Family Create Address Result Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Snow Family Create Cluster Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Snow Family Create Cluster Result Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Snow Family Create Job Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Snow Family Create Job Result Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Snow Family Data Transfer Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Snow Family Dependent Service Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Snow Family Describe Address Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Snow Family Describe Address Result Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Snow Family Describe Addresses Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Snow Family Describe Addresses Result Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Snow Family Describe Cluster Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Snow Family Describe Cluster Result Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Snow Family Describe Job Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Snow Family Describe Job Result Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Snow Family Device Configuration Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Snow Family Device Service Name Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Snow Family Ec2 Ami Resource Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Snow Family Event Trigger Definition Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Snow Family Get Job Manifest Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Snow Family Get Job Manifest Result Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Snow Family Get Job Unlock Code Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Snow Family Get Job Unlock Code Result Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Snow Family Get Snowball Usage Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Snow Family Get Snowball Usage Result Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Snow Family Get Software Updates Result Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Snow Family Impact Level Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Snow Family Ind Tax Documents Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Snow Family Job List Entry Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Snow Family Job Logs Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Snow Family Job Metadata Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Snow Family Job Resource Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Snow Family Job State Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Snow Family Job Type Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Snow Family Key Range Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Snow Family Lambda Resource Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Snow Family List Cluster Jobs Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Snow Family List Cluster Jobs Result Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Snow Family List Clusters Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Snow Family List Clusters Result Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Snow Family List Jobs Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Snow Family List Jobs Result Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Snow Family Long Term Pricing Type Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Snow Family Notification Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Snow Family Pickup Details Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Snow Family Remote Management Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Snow Family S3 Resource Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Snow Family Service Name Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Snow Family Service Version Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Snow Family Shipment State Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Snow Family Shipment Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Snow Family Shipping Details Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Snow Family Shipping Label Status Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Snow Family Shipping Option Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Snow Family Snowball Capacity Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Snow Family Snowball Type Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Snow Family Storage Unit Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Snow Family Target On Device Service Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Snow Family Tax Documents Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Snow Family Transfer Option Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Snow Family Update Cluster Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Snow Family Update Cluster Result Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Snow Family Update Job Request Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Snow Family Update Job Result Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Snow Family Wireless Connection Structure
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Examples 86
Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.
Example request and response payloads for these APIs.
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Security Posture 4
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Use Cases 3
What developers actually build with this provider — captured so the catalogue answers 'what is this for', not just 'what does this expose'.
What developers build with this provider.
Large Data Migration
Migrate terabytes to petabytes of data to AWS.
Disconnected Edge Computing
Run AWS compute in environments with no internet connectivity.
Disaster Recovery
Collect and transfer disaster recovery data to AWS.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Amazon Snow Family — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 4
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 2
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 4
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 3
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 2
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 1
The organization behind the API
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