#1 most frequent
United States of America
70.8%138 installations of 195
What is AWS Storage Gateway?
AWS Storage Gateway hybrid cloud storage connects on-premise resources to the AWS Cloud and integrates with AWS storage and archiving services to create a backup and recovery solution.
Categories & Use Cases
Who Buys & Uses AWS Storage Gateway
#2 most frequent
India
5.6%11 installations of 195
#3 most frequent
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
5.1%10 installations of 195
AWS Storage Gateway another solid service provided by AWS
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We leverage AWS Storage Gateway to mount an S3 bucket to a database server as a share to provide the ability for native backups to AWS. DBA's prefer native backups to a 3rd party tool; this protects them if the company switched backup providers it would not affect their backups or restores with it being consistent leveraging the native tools.
Pros
- Connects on-premises applications to AWS cloud storage (S3, EBS).
- Great option for backups, archiving & disaster recovery.
- Data is encrypted in transit and at rest.
Cons
- Limited protocol support currently only supports NFS & SMB.
- Dependent on AWS ecosystem.
- Costs can add up, while storage is cheap data transfer and retrieval fees can increase costs.
Return on Investment
- lower maintenance costs AWS managed service.
- improved database backups allowing use of native utilities.
- scalability, easily scales up or down based on demand.
Usability
Thinking About Connecting On-Premises to a Cloud Storage Connector? Think AWS Storage Gateway!!
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Have various storages, so to manage all of them, deploy AWS Storage Gateway to solve your problem in management
Pros
- Backup the data in cloud becomes easier
- Reduce latency
- Easily scalable
Cons
- More ACE support
- Make an offline notification
- Population of the data metrics
Most Important Features
- Backing up data
- Scaling up at ease
- Best on-premises to cloud storage connector
Return on Investment
- Scaling without impacting customers
- Connecting on-premises to cloud under that hood is easier
Other Software Used
AWS Single Sign-On, AWS Lambda, AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Great but overpriced.
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the largest cloud infrastructure, provider. We tried their Generous Free-Tier for one year. For a small business like ourselves, this is a huge deal in moving to AWS from other cloud providers, as I can try out most of its services before upgrading to premium specifications. Plus, their customer support is good.
Pros
- Support
- One-stop destination.
- Ease of Use.
Cons
- Huge service offerings.
- Prices
- Training and Use of the platform.
Most Important Features
- Security
- Speed
- Support
Return on Investment
- Prices are high.
- Improvements could be made.
- The accessibility of directories is pretty slow and little time-consuming, and less efficient.
AWS Storage Gateway, providing a cloud extension of to your backup capabilities
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We used the AWS Storage Geteway as a virtual tape library to enhance the capacity of our backup environment. The business problem that the product addressed was, it gave us the ability to backup additional servers as we had grown exponentially the last few years. With it we were able to backup important dev and QA systems without impacting the retention policy for our production system.
Pros
- The AWS Storage Gateway can be deployed very quickly. We required only a couple of hours to get it setup and was able to present it to the backup server as a media manager and VTL drives.
- The provisioning of the virtual tapes was also pretty easy to setup. Being able to utilize Glazier storage provided a great ROI.
- The documentation AWS provides is very user friendly, allowing us to set up the AWS Storage Gateway the correct way.
Cons
- There was a limitation on the throughput you were able to push thru the AWS Gateway, increasing the backup time negatively impacting the performance of the system being backed up.
- The inability to have de-duplication required more bandwidth that's what we anticipated decreasing the ROI. The increased egress charges were less than desired.
- It was somewhat cumbersome when ejecting and retrieving back the virtual tapes. The process and documentation explaining how that piece of the AWS Gateway could have been more clearer.
Most Important Features
- One of the most important features of the AWS Storage Gateway is the speed the deployment process. Being able to spin out the appliance and the on premise component was fairly painless.
- The ability to utilize Glacier storage for the virtual tapes storage gave as great ROI.
- With the AWS Storage Gateway, we were able to eliminate the need to pay for a offsite tape storage company. Reducing IT's managing cost.
Return on Investment
- A positive ROI that AWS Storage Gateway had is we were able to eliminate using a offsite tape management company.
- Another ROI is that it has allowed for quicker file restore capability. We can recall a tape much quicker from AWS, compared to having contact the offisite tape management company and in most cases wait a day or two for the tape to arrive.
- Furthermore, the capability of using Glacier storage for the AWS Storage Gateway is another ROI, reducing the cost of storing our backups.
- Finally being able to use more features of AWS is another ROI, because it allowed us to better utilize our cloud investment.
Alternatives Considered
Unitrends Data Center Backup and Recovery
Other Software Used
Cohesity DataProtect, Dell EMC Networker, Arcserve Backup, Veritas Backup Exec, Veeam Backup & Replication
Excellent virtual cloud storage software
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
AWS Storage Gateway gives us an opportunity to access our stored data virtually from our cloud storage servers. It has effectively linked our company to our servers and offers faster services that are very reliable. Security of our data is guaranteed from our servers since it is screened by our team before we use it for decision-making
Pros
- Displaying our data virtually from our cloud servers.
- Provision of storage backup of our data.
Cons
- The platform performance has been excellent.
- Virtual tools have been reliable.
Most Important Features
- It provides Hybrid cloud storage.
- Availability of virtual unlimited cloud storage.
Return on Investment
- It has contributed to positive Returns on Investment.
- The overall cloud storage services are excellent.
Alternatives Considered
Azure Queue Storage