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AWS-Storage-Gateway
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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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