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Re:AWS Snowcone by ryanisnan on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @02:12PM (#23554686)
Hey Jeff, curious what the battery life of this device is?

I'm on a team that has a need for remote compute power, but getting to our devices on anything more frequent than a monthly basis is sometimes a challenge.

Re:AWS Snowcone by re on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @09:43PM (#23558911)
It sounds like the device does not have an internal battery so it depends on the capacity of the battery that you attach to it.

https://aws.amazon.com/snowcone/features/

> For a light workload at 25% CPU usage, the device can run on a 65 W battery for approximately 6 hours.

The docs are a little inconsistent on wattage requirement. The feature page above says "60 W+ (20 V) USB-C power adapters", but in the docs:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/snowball/latest/snowcone-guide/s...

> any USB-C power adapter that is rated for 45W+

Re:AWS Snowcone by qchris on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @02:51PM (#23555196)
My team also may be looking for something with similar requirements in the near future, do you have any recommendations for solutions that you're considering? I know a number of earth science researchers that have mentioned ideas that would really benefit from that sort thing as well.
Re:AWS Snowcone by ryanisnan on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @02:22PM (#23554811)
Answered my own question! Thanks for posting! Has some cool applications for sure, but too much draw for set it and forget type of operations.
Re:AWS Snowcone by rcar on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @02:40PM (#23555054)
On behalf of future searchers trying to avoid the "nvm I figured it out" problem, what was the answer?