Created By: Keishin CHOU Last Edited: Apr 22, 2020 10:52 AM
- AWS Storage Gateway connects an on-premises software appliance with cloud-based storage to provide seamless integration with data security features between your on-premises IT environment and the AWS storage infrastructure.
- AWS Storage Gateway offers file-based, volume-based, and tape-based storage solutions.
- A hard disk in the cloud. Store files as objects in S3, with a local cache for low-latency access to your most recently used data.
- Configured S3 buckets are accessible using NFS and/or SMB protocol.
- Supports S3 standard, S3 IA, S3 One Zone IA.
- Bucket access using IAM roles for each File Gateway.
- Most recently used data is cached in the File Gateway.
- Can be mounted on many servers.
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Block storage in S3 with point-in-time backups as EBS snapshots.
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Dataset backup in the cloud using iSCSI block protocol.
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Data written to these volumes can be asynchronously backed up as point-in-time snapshots of your volumes, and stored in the cloud as EBS snapshots.
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Snapshots are incremental backups that capture only changed blocks.
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Cached Volumes
- Use S3 as your primary data storage.
- Retain recently used data locally in Storage Gateway.
- ⇒ S3 is primary storage. Save recently used data (not all data) locally.
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Stored Volumes
- You store your (primary) data locally.
- Asynchronously back up the whole data to AWS with schedule.
- In the form of EBS snapshot.
- ⇒ Local storage is primary. Back up the whole data to S3.
- Back up your data to S3 and archive in Glacier using your existing tape-based processes.
- On premise data to the cloud ⇒ Storage Gateway
- File access / NFS ⇒ File Gateway (Backed up by S3)
- Volumes / Block Storage / iSCSI ⇒ Volume Gateway (Backed up by S3 with EBS Snapshots)
- VTL Tape solution / Back up with iSCSI ⇒ Tape Gateway (Backed up with S3 and Glacier)
