AWS Storage Gateway

Score8.4 out of 10

42 Reviews and Ratings

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

Storage Management

Aaron Davis View profile

Drafting Technician / IT / Pre-Owned Services in Information Technology at Comm-Fit LP (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

AWS Storage Gateway has been a great solution for syncing our local storage with the cloud. We keep all our sales decks, facility layouts, and equipment schematics locally for quick access, while everything is automatically stored in an S3 bucket for backup and easy sharing.

Pros

Syncing
Backups
High availability

Cons

Setup
Pricing
Customization

Return on Investment

Faster access, less downtime.
Zero data loss risk
Lower storage costs overall

Usability

Other Software Used

AutoCAD LT, servis

Verified User

Manager in Information Technology (5001-10,000 employees employees)

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

chetan kapoor View profile

Senior Software Engineer in Engineering at Broadcom (10,001+ employees employees)

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

Zied Chaabane

COO (Chief Operating Officer) in Product Management at Ideaology (11-50 employees employees)

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.

Edwin Labirua View profile

Senior Infrastructure Engineer in Information Technology at Leviton Manufacturing Inc. (1001-5000 employees employees)

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

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