AWS Storage Gateway User Guide
Limits for Volumes
Description
File Gateway
The maximum size of an individual file, which
is the maximum size of an individual object in
Amazon S3
Note
If you write a file larger than 5 TB, you
get a "file too large" error message and
only the first 5 TB of the file is uploaded.
5 TB
Maximum path length
Note
Clients are not allowed to create a path
exceeding this length, and doing so
results in an error. This limit applies
to both protocols supported by file
gateways, NFS and SMB.
1024 bytes
Limits for Volumes
The following table lists limits for volumes.
Description
Cached Volumes
Stored Volumes
Maximum size of a volume
Note
If you create a snapshot from
a cached volume that is more
than 16 TiB in size, you can
restore it to a Storage Gateway
volume but not to an Amazon
Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)
volume.
32 TiB
16 TiB
Maximum number of volumes per
gateway
32
32
Total size of all volumes for a gateway
1,024 TiB
512 TiB
Limits for Tapes
The following table lists limits for tapes.
Description
Tape Gateway
Minimum size of a virtual tape
100 GiB
Maximum size of a virtual tape
2.5 TiB
Maximum number of virtual tapes for a virtual
tape library (VTL)
1,500
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