Simple data exchange between on-premises and cloud infrastructure with AWS Storage Gateway
December 05, 2019

Simple data exchange between on-premises and cloud infrastructure with AWS Storage Gateway

Oscar Martinez | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with AWS Storage Gateway

AWS Storage Gateway is used across the whole organization for specific projects, it let us offer a simple storage solution to our customers through a site to site VPN. With AWS Storage Gateway we provide storage devices to our customers so they can upload/download files to/from AWS using an NFS client on their side.
  • Configuration simplicity.
  • Use of standard storage protocols.
  • Easy integration with AWS services.
  • Data encryption in transit.
  • Cache refreshing method.
  • Storage Gateway instance managed by customer.
  • Cheap and reliable offsite backup storage.
  • Low configuration time via API.
  • Shared storage solution for multiple clients.
Most of our workloads are hosted in AWS so we wanted to use a service that was easily integrated with our existing services. We selected AWS Storage Gateway as it provided us with a lot of features that eventually were very beneficial for us and our customers. AWS Storage Gateway lets us provide our customers with an easy to set up and use storage service where they can upload all the information needed by the analytics projects and download the processed information those projects return.
AWS Storage Gateway is supported by the AWS Support team, they provide excellent support and great SLAs for our needs.

Do you think AWS Storage Gateway delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with AWS Storage Gateway's feature set?

Yes

Did AWS Storage Gateway live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of AWS Storage Gateway go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy AWS Storage Gateway again?

Yes

AWS Storage Gateway suits for connecting on-premises infrastructure with storage services in AWS, in provides standard storage protocols so it's very easy to set up and use. It can be used also as a backup facility for local data with S3 or Glacier as storage backend services. AWS Storage Gateway is also secure as it encrypts data in transit.