AWS Storage Gateway User Guide
Are You a First-Time AWS Storage Gateway User?
Tape Gateway
– With a tape gateway, you can cost-effectively and durably archive backup data in
GLACIER or DEEP_ARCHIVE. A tape gateway provides a virtual tape infrastructure that scales seamlessly
with your business needs and eliminates the operational burden of provisioning, scaling, and maintaining
a physical tape infrastructure.
You can run AWS Storage Gateway either on-premises as a VM appliance, as a hardware appliance, or in
AWS as an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance. You deploy your gateway on an EC2
instance to provision iSCSI storage volumes in AWS. You can use gateways hosted on EC2 instances for
disaster recovery, data mirroring, and providing storage for applications hosted on Amazon EC2.
For an architectural overview, see
How AWS Storage Gateway Works (Architecture) (p. 2)
. To see the
wide range of use cases that AWS Storage Gateway helps make possible, see the
To get started with Storage Gateway, see the following.
Topics
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Are You a First-Time AWS Storage Gateway User? (p. 2)
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How AWS Storage Gateway Works (Architecture) (p. 2)
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AWS Storage Gateway Pricing (p. 8)
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Plan Your Storage Gateway Deployment (p. 8)
Are You a First-Time AWS Storage Gateway User?
In the following documentation, you can find a Getting Started section that covers setup information
common to all gateways and also gateway-specific setup sections. The Getting Started section shows
you how to deploy, activate, and configure storage for a gateway. The management section shows you
how to manage your gateway and resources:
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Creating a File Gateway (p. 36)
provides instructions on how to create and use a file gateway. It
shows you how to create a file share, map your drive to an Amazon S3 bucket, and upload files and
folders to Amazon S3.
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Creating a Volume Gateway (p. 56)
describes how to create and use a volume gateway. It shows you
how to create storage volumes and back up data to the volumes.
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Creating a Tape Gateway (p. 75)
provides instructions on how to create and use a tape gateway. It
shows you how to back up data to virtual tapes and archive the tapes.
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Managing Your Gateway (p. 144)
describes how to perform management tasks for all gateway types
and resources.
In this guide, you can primarily find how to work with gateway operations by using the AWS
Management Console. If you want to perform these operations programmatically, see the
How AWS Storage Gateway Works (Architecture)
Following, you can find an architectural overview of the available AWS Storage Gateway solutions.
Topics
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