AWS Storage Gateway
AWS Storage Gateway makes it easy to connect your existing on-premises servers to storage in the AWS cloud. Because it uses industry-standard storage protocols, there’s no need to install special software on your existing servers. Instead, you just provision an AWS Storage Gateway virtual machine on-premises and connect your servers to it. Storage Gateway handles the data transfer between your servers and the AWS storage infrastructure. The virtual machine can run on a VMware ESXi or Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor.
AWS Storage Gateway offers the following three virtual machine types for different use cases:
- File gateways
- Volume gateways
- Tape gateways
File Gateways
A file gateway lets you use the Network File System (NFS) and Server Message Block (SMB) protocols to store data in Amazon S3. Although data is stored on S3, it’s cached locally, allowing for low-latency access. A file gateway can function as a normal on-premises file server. Because data...
