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AWS-Storage-Gateway
AWS Storage Gateway - A service that connects to a software appliance, that is on location, to supply cloud based storage seamlessly and securely as a cost scalable cost effective storage.
Your Data Center => AWS Storage Gateway => AWS S3/Glacier/Whatever
Three different types of Storage Gateways:
File Gateway (NSF) - for flat files: pdfs, images, etc
Volumes Gateway (iSCSI) - block based storage for operating systems: virtual operating system, virtual hard disk, ect
- Virtual hard disks
- Can be Async'ed backed up ( Amazon EBS Snapshot )
- All Snapshots stored in minified form
Stored Volumnes - Where you store entire copies of your dataset onsite/locally
- Async backed up to S3 in the form of EBS (Elastic Block Store)
- Snapshots can be 1G - 16TB
Cached Volumes - only stores the most recently accessed dataset
- can be 1G-32TB
Tape Gateway (VTL) - Used for creating virtual tapes and sending them to S3 or Glacier
- durable cost effective way to archive data
- VTL allows you to use your existing Tape backup system
- Each Tape Gateway is preconfigered with a media changer and tape drives
- You add Tapes Cartridges as you want
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