AWS Storage Gateway

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Post by bpuvanathasan » Wed, Jan 25, 2012, 8:46 AM UTC

AWS Storage Gateway
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Re: AWS Storage Gateway

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Post by donky_cong » Wed, Jan 25, 2012, 9:08 AM UTC

So you are basically paying 125$+ to have S3 cached locally and get an iSCSI interface ?

Re: AWS Storage Gateway

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Post by mopoke » Wed, Jan 25, 2012, 9:09 AM UTC

From my brief reading of Werner's blog post, it seems that this is very similar to what Nasuni have been selling.

Re: AWS Storage Gateway

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Post by latchkey » Wed, Jan 25, 2012, 9:10 AM UTC

I don't have a personal need for this right now, but the fact that it stores the data as EBS volumes is pretty cool. I could imagine having local servers automatically mirrored so that they could be failed over to instances on ec2. Very powerful stuff indeed.

Re: AWS Storage Gateway

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Post by cperciva » Wed, Jan 25, 2012, 9:17 AM UTC

latchkey wrote: post #4

I don't have a personal need for this right now, but the fact that it stores the data as EBS volumes is pretty cool. I could imagine having local servers automatically mirrored so that they could be failed over to instances on ec2. Very powerful stuff indeed.

Note that the mirroring is asynchronous -- if your local server fails you can replace it with an EC2 instance, but you lose anything since the last snapshot.

Re: AWS Storage Gateway

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Post by bprater » Wed, Jan 25, 2012, 9:20 AM UTC

Can someone give a brief explanation of what this service is good for?

Re: AWS Storage Gateway

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Post by ridruejo » Wed, Jan 25, 2012, 9:27 AM UTC

More details at Werner's post

http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2012/01/The-AWS-Storage-...

Re: AWS Storage Gateway

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Post by chubs » Wed, Jan 25, 2012, 9:37 AM UTC

bprater wrote: post #6

Can someone give a brief explanation of what this service is good for?

It sounds to me like enterprisey dropbox: It backs up your files from your local file server to the aws cloud, and if your server dies, bung in a new one and all your files will reappear. Great idea, although maybe something you could already do with dropbox?

Re: AWS Storage Gateway

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Post by kondro » Wed, Jan 25, 2012, 10:36 AM UTC

Sounds like a great idea. I can't wait until they release Gateway-Cached Volumes myself as it better suits my use-case.

Re: AWS Storage Gateway

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Post by soult » Wed, Jan 25, 2012, 10:37 AM UTC

chubs wrote: post #8

bprater wrote: post #6

Can someone give a brief explanation of what this service is good for?

It sounds to me like enterprisey dropbox: It backs up your files from your local file server to the aws cloud, and if your server dies, bung in a new one and all your files will reappear. Great idea, although maybe something you could already do with dropbox?

As far as I understood the product page and Werner Vogels' blog post[1] it does not run on file level, but on filesystem level. So you won't be able to access single files from within S3, but rather have whole disk images stored in Amazon S3, ready to be restored back to your local datacenter or to be mounted on EC2 servers.

1: http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2012/01/The-AWS-Storage-...