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File vs. Volume vs. Tape Storage Gateway

File vs. Volume vs. Tape Storage Gateway - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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File vs. Volume vs. Tape Storage Gateway

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- [Instructor] AWS Storage Gateway is a hybrid cloud storage service that connects your on-premises data storage to your AWS resources. It allows your on-premises servers to seamlessly use the AWS storage services for backups or data integration. It is primarily used to integrate your local and cloud storage systems. In AWS Storage Gateway, there are three types that you can choose from. They are the AWS File Gateway, Volume Gateway, and Tape Gateway. These three gateway types are all using Amazon S3 to store data as part of their processing. However, these gateways differ on their storage type, Active Directory support, use case, and other integration features. Let's discuss them one by one in this lesson. First, we will look at the storage types of each gateway. A File Gateway is a type of file storage, just as its name implies. A Volume Gateway is block storage, and the Tape Gateway is tape storage. You can…

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