[silveira]

"The data will be 256-bit encrypted on the host and stored on the appliance in encrypted form", key is stored in KMS, according to https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-importexport-snowball-t...

[crazysim]

I think the poster was talking about someone simply gutting the appliance for the 50TB drives. With a bit of fraud here and there on top.

[djhworld]

From the looks of it the delivery provider is UPS, if they lose it or a rogue employee guts it during transit, I think AWS will probably have clauses in their contracts to go at them full pelt with a lawsuit