The Amazon Storage Gateway service seamlessly enables hybrid storage between on-premises storage environments and the Amazon Web Services Cloud. It combines a multi-protocol storage appliance with highly efficient network connectivity to Amazon cloud storage services, delivering local performance with virtually unlimited scale. Customers use it in remote offices and datacenters for hybrid cloud workloads, backup and restore, archive, disaster recovery, and tiered storage.
The Storage Gateway virtual appliance connects directly to your local infrastructure as a file server, as a volume, or as a virtual tape library (VTL). This seamless connection makes it simple for organizations to augment existing on-premises storage investments with the high scalability, extreme durability and low cost of cloud storage.
The Amazon Storage Gateway service seamlessly enables hybrid storage between on-premises storage environments and the Amazon Web Services Cloud. It combines a multi-protocol storage appliance with highly efficient network connectivity to Amazon cloud storage services, delivering local performance with virtually unlimited scale. Customers use it in remote offices and datacenters for hybrid cloud workloads, backup and restore, archive, disaster recovery, and tiered storage.
The Storage Gateway virtual appliance connects directly to your local infrastructure as a file server, as a volume, or as a virtual tape library (VTL). This seamless connection makes it simple for organizations to augment existing on-premises storage investments with the high scalability, extreme durability and low cost of cloud storage.
Benefits
Cloud-Integrated
Simple
Durable and Secure
Efficient Access
Scalable
Benefits
Cloud-Integrated
Simple
Durable and Secure
Efficient Access
Scalable
How It Works
Connect as a File Server
Connect as a Local Disk
The volume interface presents the Storage Gateway to on-premises servers and applications as a local disk. Data in these volumes can be transferred into Amazon S3 cloud storage and accessed through the Storage Gateway service. Store data locally for the highest performance (with snapshot backups to the cloud), or blend latency and scale by storing frequently-accessed data locally with "cooler" data in the cloud.
Connect as a Virtual Tape Library (VTL)
Transfer Data Into and Out of the Cloud
How It Works
Connect as a File Server
The file interface offers on-premises servers and applications access to Storage Gateway as a network file share. Data is cached for local performance. Once in Amazon S3, data is accessible as objects in S3 with Amazon S3 File Gateway or fully managed file shares in Amazon FSx File Gateway. Amazon S3 File Gateway is optimized for heavy ingest workloads such as backups and archives, as well as for SMB and NFS access of data lakes stored in S3. Amazon FSx File Gateway optimized for user home directories and departmental file shares using the SMB file protocol.
Transfer Data Into and Out of the Cloud
Storage Gateway automatically buffers on-premises data and efficiently moves it into (and out of) cloud storage services. This reduces the time and cost of moving data between your site and the Amazon Web Services Cloud. Optimizations such as multipart management, delta transfers, bandwidth throttling, and bandwidth scheduling are standard for all interfaces.
Connect as a Local Disk
The volume interface presents the Storage Gateway to on-premises servers and applications as a local disk. Data in these volumes can be transferred into Amazon S3 cloud storage and accessed through the Storage Gateway service. Store data locally for the highest performance (with snapshot backups to the cloud), or blend latency and scale by storing frequently-accessed data locally with "cooler" data in the cloud.
Connect as a Virtual Tape Library (VTL)
The tape interface replaces backup tapes and tape automation equipment with local disk and cloud storage. Your existing backup and recovery software writes native backup jobs to virtual tapes stored on the Storage Gateway. Virtual tapes can be migrated into Amazon S3 and eventually archived into Amazon Glacier for the lowest cost. Data is accessed through your backup application and the backup catalog maintains complete visibility for all backup jobs and tapes.
Use Cases
Move Backups to the Cloud
Storage Gateway enables you to securely and easily store backups in the cloud. These include database backups, file share backups, tape archives, and more. Tape Gateway provides a virtual tape library, with each virtual tape being stored in Amazon S3, and supports all major backup applications. Tape Gateway is designed to be a seamless drop-in replacement to your existing physical tape infrastructure. When you no longer require immediate or frequent access to data contained on a virtual tape, you can have your backup application archive it. Your data goes from the virtual tape library into Amazon S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval (formerly S3 Glacier) or Amazon S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval (formerly S3 Glacier) Deep Archive, further reducing storage costs.
For file-based backups and archives, Amazon S3 File Gateway offers you a seamless way to connect to the cloud in order to store application data files, access analytics and ML datasets, and backup data as objects on Amazon S3 cloud storage.
Use On-Premises File Shares Backed by Cloud Storage
Amazon FSx File Gateway helps you access fully managed, cloud backed file shares from on-premises, reduces your costs of storing data locally, and provides you with additional flexibility by allowing you to access your data in the cloud. Nearly all enterprises, regardless of industry, have to store files, whether they are user file shares, media content, or application datasets. Managing and scaling on-premises infrastructure is often burdensome and costly, requiring expensive hardware refreshes, expansion, and software licensing. Amazon FSx File Gateway helps you reduce these on-premises costs and physical hardware footprints giving you more freedom to make the decisions for your business.
Low Latency Access for On-Premises Applications to Cloud
Data Protection and Disaster Recovery
Use Cases
Move Backups to the Cloud
Storage Gateway enables you to securely and easily store backups in the cloud. These include database backups, file share backups, tape archives, and more. Tape Gateway provides a virtual tape library, with each virtual tape being stored in Amazon S3, and supports all major backup applications. Tape Gateway is designed to be a seamless drop-in replacement to your existing physical tape infrastructure. When you no longer require immediate or frequent access to data contained on a virtual tape, you can have your backup application archive it. Your data goes from the virtual tape library into Amazon S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval (formerly S3 Glacier) or Amazon S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval (formerly S3 Glacier) Deep Archive, further reducing storage costs.
For file-based backups and archives, Amazon S3 File Gateway offers you a seamless way to connect to the cloud in order to store application data files, access analytics and ML datasets, and backup data as objects on Amazon S3 cloud storage.
