Storage Gateway

• Bridge between on-premises data and cloud data in S3
• Kinds
• File Storage Gateway
• Volume Storage Gateway
• Tape Storage Gateway
• The gateway has to be installed in your on-premises environment
• A Storage Gateway Hardware Appliance can be bought as the physical infrastructure (mini server) for the gateway

File Gateway

• Access S3 files with NFS or SMB protocols
• Integrated with AD for user authentication with the file gateway

Volume Gateway

• Access EBS snapshots (backed in s3) with iSCSI protocol

• Useful to backup on-premise volumes!

• Cached volumes (low latency)

• Stored volumes

Tape Gateway

• Access Virtual Tape Library (VTL) (backed in S3) with iSCSI protocol