# AWS Storage Gateway
#aws #cloud #networking #storage
AWS Storage Gateway is a set of hybrid cloud storage services provided in
AWS that provide on-premises access to virtually unlimited cloud storage.
# File Gateway
• File gateway provides a virtual on-premises file-server
• Store and retrieve files as objects in Amazon
S3
• Use with on-premises applications, and
EC2-based applications that need file storage in S3 for object-based workloads
• File gateway offers SMB or
NFS-based access to data in Amazon S3 with local caching
# Volume Gateway
• The volume gateway supports block-based volumes
• Block storage – iSCSI protocol
• Cached Volume mode – the entire dataset is stored on S3 and a cache of the most frequently accessed data is cached on-site
• Stored Volume mode – the entire dataset is stored on-site and is asynchronously backed up to S3 (
EBS point-in-time snapshots). Snapshots are incremental and compressed.
# Tape Gateway
• Used for backup with popular backup software • Each gateway is preconfigured with a media changer and tape drives. Supported by NetBackup, Backup Exec, Veeam etc. • When creating virtual tapes, you select one of the following sizes: 100 GB, 200 GB, 400 GB, 800 GB, 1.5 TB, and 2.5 TB • A tape gateway can have up to 1,500 virtual tapes with a maximum aggregate capacity of 1 PB • All data transferred between the gateway and AWS storage is encrypted using SSL • All data stored by tape gateway in S3 is encrypted server-side with Amazon S3-Managed Encryption Keys (SSE-S3)
