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Storage Gateway

  • Writer: Rohan Roy
    Rohan Roy
  • May 10, 2021
  • 1 min read

Storage Gateway connects an on-premise software appliance with cloud-based storage to provide seamless and secure integration between an organization's on-premise IT environment and AWS's storage infrastructure.


  • AWS Storage Gateway's software appliance is available for download as virtual machine(VM) image that can be installed on a host in your datacenter.

  • Storage Gateway types:

    • File Gateway

    • Volume Gateway

      • Stored Volumes

      • Cached Volumes

    • Tape Gateway

  • File Gateway is used for flat files and stores data directly on S3.

  • Volume Gateway used to store volumes of data:

    • Stored Volume stores entire dataset on site and asynchronously backs up to S3.

    • Cached Volume stores entre dataset to S3 and most frequently accessed data is caches on site.


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