AWS Storage Gateway – A new Hybrid Storage

Amazon launched a new hybrid cloud storage environment as AWS Storage Gateway which can be used to bridge an organization’s present on-premise hardware configuration to diverse AWS Services. AWS Storage Gateway allows admins to set up a hybrid storage environs with the help of various AWS Services. This will help to relocate data of an organization to the cloud, build off-site backups, or make use of cloud-based processing services, amid other choices. AWS Storage Gateway uses standard storage protocols to store files, block volumes, snapshots, and virtual tape backups in AWS. The service includes in AWS Storage Gateway are to transfer a highly-optimized data, with bandwidth management, automated network flexibility, and efficient data transfer, through a local cache for low-latency on-premises access to your agile data.

Highlighted Benefits of AWS Storage Gateway’s are

1. Integrated
   
2. Performance
   
3. Optimized Transfer
   
4. Simple
   
5. Cloud Scale
   
6. Durable
   
7. Secure
   

You can purchase AWS Storage Gateway from amazon.com and can be managed from AWS console. Further detail description of AWS Storage Gateway.