When an AWS cloud enthusiast gets to sit down and share services like S3, Elastic block storage and elastic file storage will be the most talked about as each service provides its own set of attributes for different use cases.
I stumbled upon a service in AWS that tailor made to facilitate on-premise to cloud storage sharing with different storage options for those seeking to extend their storage, data availability to the cloud.
This service offers consumers the ability to link their on-premise data to cloud in different linking options, enabling convenience, flexibility in upload of different file formats. Some supported formats for files are iSCSI, SMB, and NFS
It integrates with services like S3, Amazon FSx for Windows File Server cloud storage enabling you to link your on-premise windows active directory to link and sync for data transfer to AWS cloud
One might be wondering how to leverage this service may it be for
- Easing the on-premise storage by uploading and archiving content to cloud.
- Being able to access files from AWS from on-premise with low latency.
With one's use case AWS storage gateway offers three storage interfaces for on-premise applications: file, volume, and tape.
it offers different modes to support your data
1.Amazon FSx File Gateway
This option is designed to enhance on-premise access of windows files at low-latency through amazon fsx share.
for a comprehensive deep dive on how it work visit
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/filegateway/latest/filefsxw/file-gateway-fsx-concepts.html
2.Tape Gateway
It provides backup application with an iSCSI virtual tape library (VTL) interface. They consist of virtual media changer, virtual tape drives, and virtual tapes.
This service is utilized through the snowball
for it features visit : https://aws.amazon.com/storagegateway/features/?nc=sn&loc=2&dn=1
- Volume Gateway This option provides block storage to your on-premises applications using iSCSI connectivity. it uploads compressed files from on-premise, this reduces both latency and file size minimizing on storage cost.
it runs on either cached or stored mode, where cached primary data is written to s3 while frequently accessed data is retained locally.
in the case of stored mode the primary data and all its dataset is locally as it is also asynchronously backed up to AWS.
in getting started with volume gateway visit: https://aws.amazon.com/storagegateway/volume
Based on your preferred use case AWS has you covered.
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this article is authored by
Sospeter Gathungu
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