AWS Storage Gateway is a fully managed, hybrid-cloud storage service that provides on-premises access to virtually unlimited cloud storage.
Gateway Types
- Amazon S3 File Gateway
- This allows you to bridge your local environment with Amazon S3. It provides on-premises applications with access to virtually unlimited cloud storage through familiar file protocols.
- It appears to your computer as a standard file server.
- meaning, when files are written to this server, they are automatically uploaded to Amazon S3.
- Volume Gateway
- It functions as a bridge between your on-premises infrastructure and AWS Cloud Storage by presenting your cloud data as iSCSI volumes that can be mounted by applications
- How is this different from S3 File Gateway?
- Volume Gateway presents cloud storage as block storage volumes rather than file shares
- Tape Gateway
- provides an interface that works with existing tape backup software, making the transition from physical tapes to cloud storage seamless.