AWS Storage Gateway and Snow Family

AWS Storage Gateway

AWS Storage Gateway is a hybrid cloud storage service that allows us to easily integrate our on-site IT environment and AWS’s storage infrastructure, allowing on-site applications to access AWS storage services.

Note: A hybrid cloud is a combination of a private cloud (on-site data centers) and one or more public clouds that remain distinct entities but are bound together to get the benefits of both.

When we deploy our applications on AWS, it’s straightforward to link them with AWS storage services such as S3, EBS, and File Gateways. However, if we want to take advantage of cloud storage in a hybrid cloud configuration, we use the Storage Gateway service.

Note: AWS Storage Gateway can be used as software or a dedicated hardware appliance in the on-site data center. The dedicated hardware for Storage Gateway is necessary for small data centers that don’t have spare capacity for the Storage Gateway software and hardware requirements.

AWS Storage Gateway has four storage solutions:

• Amazon FSx File Gateway
• Amazon S3 File Gateway
• Volume Gateway
• Tape Gateway