Limitations when AWS Snowball Edge is used

The following are limitations when you use AWS Snowball Edge with NetBackup.

AWS Snowball Edge does not support the following AWS storage tiers:
- Glacier
- Deep Archive
- Infrequent Access (IA)
Immutable or WORM storage is not supported.
- AWS Snowball Edge cannot write to buckets if you have turned on S3 Object Lock or if IAM policies on the bucket prevent writing to the bucket.
Bucket listing is not supported (AWS does not support S3 API for bucket listing)
- The NetBackup web UI shows "No cloud buckets available" if you try to Retrieve the buckets.
The device does not support bucket creation. This limitation is because you are not allowed to create any new buckets on the device.
When the device is in transit to upload data to AWS, it cannot be accessed. As such, all backup policies and SLPs targeting the device must be disabled. Additionally, the data cannot be accessed from the bucket until the upload process has successfully completed.
When the device is in transit to export data from AWS, the data in the bucket in S3 is in read-only mode. As such, all backup policies and SLPs targeting that bucket must be disabled. For image sharing, the data can be duplicated to another bucket. The newly created bucket is then used as the target bucket for the export job if backups have to continue running on the original bucket.