Item: AWS Storage Gateway
Rating: 8
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with AWS Storage Gateway

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 and Cons

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

AWS Storage Gateway is a good product and for certain use cases works really well, however i would like to see it support additional protocols in the future.

Key Insights

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

Likelihood to Recommend

excellent use cases for AWS Storage Gateway would include backups, archiving, Data migration as well as disaster recovery. some use cases to avoid high performance-based workloads requiring low latency or high IOPs. any use cases that are not SMB or NFS based protocols. cost sensitivity data transfers and retrieval fees can add up quickly with S3 glacier.

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AWS Storage Gateway another solid service provided by AWS