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AWS - Storage Gateway

Storage Gateway It connects on-premise with cloud based storage. Storage gateway's software appliance is available for download as VM image. Once installed on on-premise datacenter and associated with AWS by activation process. AWS management console is used now(after 3) to configure storage options. iSCSI is an acronym for Internet Small Computer Systems Interface, an Internet Protocol-based storage networking standard for linking data storage facilities. Connection flow - Customer on-premise host - AWS Gateway -->Data connect or AWS VPC --> S3 Direct connect is direct line between customer's on premise data centre. Through VPC directly connecting to EC2 instance. Four types of storage gateways File gateway (NFS-S3) Volume gateway (iSCSI-block based storage) Stored volume Cached volume Tape gateway (VTL-Virtual tapes for backup) File gateway - Files are stored as objects in your S3 buckets, accessed through a NFS mount point. All me...