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Storage Gateway in AWS – The Basics

Storage Gateway

Overview

The storage gateway of AWS provides a simple way to integrate your on-premises storage with your AWS S3. It does this through the installation of a VM appliance in your VMware or Hyper-V implementation. You could also install it on to an EC2 instance in your Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) infrastructure for a different modality.

Types of Storage Gateways

There are four total types of Storage Gateway (note that Volume Gateway consists of two variations):

  • File gateway – this uses NFS and is for your flat files (PDFs, JPGs, etc)
  • Volume gateway – this actually consists of stored volumes and cached volumes – this is for block storage using iSCSI
  • Tape gateway – to create virtual tape libraries

While the volume gateway options both provide block storage (using iSCSI) and would be great for things like virtual hard disks and databases, note that the stored volume approach duplicates your data to the cloud while the cached volume approach only keeps cached copies of frequently accessed files in your on-premises location.

Common Use Cases

Customers commonly use Storage Gateway services for use cases such as:

  • Hybrid cloud workloads – big data, cloud bursting or cloud data migration architectures may need local capacity and performance with a connection to a central storage repository in the cloud. Storage Gateway streamlines moving data between your organization and AWS to manage workloads in the cloud.
  • Backup, archive, and disaster recovery – Storage Gateway is a drop-in replacement for tape and tape automation, and integrates with industry backup software packages. Storage Gateway can take snapshots of your local volumes which can restored as Amazon EBS volumes in the event of a local site disaster.
  • Tiered Storage – some customers design storage architectures that preserve or extend high performance on-premises investments by adding a lower cost, on-demand cloud tier. This helps with archival or cost-reduction projects.

Want to learn more – this is from my latest CBT Nuggets course on AWS. This course is in development as I post this.
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The New Cloud Essentials Course at CBT Nuggets!

Cloud Essentials

I have uploaded the last Nuggets and Quizzes for CompTIA’s Cloud Essentials course at cbtnuggets.com, and we will publish it to our site shortly for our learners. This course is a specialty Certification from CompTIA and prepares learners to understand Cloud fundamentals and describe potential risks and rewards associated with Cloud technology adoption. This video collection is a perfect first course for those interested in learning one of the hottest topics in modern IT. The course consists of 22 Nuggets and even provides learners with the ability to practice Cloud virtualization in a Hands-on Lab! Should you have any questions at all let me know in the comments area below this blog post.

The course is complete and can be found here! 

Here are the 22 Nuggets of goodness that make up this new course:

  1. Introducing Cloud Essentials
  2. Cloud Computing Defined
  3. Virtualization and the Cloud
  4. Hands-on Lab: Microsoft Hyper-V
  5. Early Examples of Cloud
  6. Is the Cloud for your Company?
  7. “As A Service” Models (XaaS)
  8. Could vs. Outsourcing
  9. Business Characteristics of Cloud
  10. Private vs. Public Cloud
  11. Deploying the Cloud
  12. Challenges and Risks
  13. The Cloud and Applications
  14. Successful Deployment Steps
  15. Cloud Vendors
  16. Organizational Requirements
  17. Migrating Applications
  18. Impact to IT
  19. ITIL and the Cloud
  20. Compliance
  21. Direct Costs and Costs Allocations
  22. Maintaining Strategic Flexibility

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