AWS Storage Gateway  sandbox 

Feb 13, 2024 / Notes / 1 min
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Features

Think of it as a device which exposes the S3 storage as iSCSI, SMB or NFS mounts to on-prem workloads.

  • Launch it as a VM in your on-prem data center, or install the [[#Hardware Appliance]].
  • Reduces the need to re-engineer these workloads to work with S3.
  • Helps with replicating on-prem data to S3 for backups or archival needs.
  • On-prem workloads get access to low latency access to S3 data
  • Data lake access for pre and post processing tasks.

Types

File Gateway

  • Access S3 via SMB or NFS shares
  • Max 64 TB

FSx File Gateway

  • Access FSx via SMB

Volume Gateway

  • Access block storage using iSCSI. EBS?
  • Supports upto 32 volumes
  • Cached mode: Max 32 x 32 TB volumes (1 PB / gateway)
  • Stored mode: Max 32 X 16 TB volumes (512 TB / gateway)

Tape Gateway

iSCSI virtual tape library (VTL) interface to store backups on S3 or Glacier.

Hardware Appliance

There is a storage gateway hardware appliance for locations that do not have an existing VMWare infrastructure. This appliance comes in 2 sizes 5 TB or 12 TB.

Questions

  1. When to pick storage gateway over data sync?