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Re:AWS Snowcone by ceejayoz on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @01:24PM (#23554062)
It looks like you can keep the Snowcone. One of the screenshots offers this option:

> "Perform local compute and storage workloads, without transferring data. You can order multiple devices in a cluster for increased durability and storage capacity."

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Re:AWS Snowcone by wmf on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @01:36PM (#23554212)
At $6/day it's fairly expensive for non-temporary workloads.
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Re:AWS Snowcone by jon-wood on Thursday June 18, 2020 @05:46AM (#23561482)
They have a pricing example for this use case which includes the following caveat:

> First, you should contact AWS Sales to discuss private pricing for the long-term AWS Snowcone deployment

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Re:AWS Snowcone by E5JBK7UJPT on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @03:52PM (#23555932)
Or you could pay the $2,000 lost device fee.
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Re:AWS Snowcone by notatoad on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @04:55PM (#23556632)
I'm guessing the devices marked as lost don't continue to function (at least not once they connect to the internet again)
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