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AWS Storage Extras

Section 14 of 30

Snow Family, Storage Gateway, FSx file systems, and hybrid cloud storage solutions

40 minintermediate
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Key Takeaways

  • Snow Family devices (Snowcone, Snowball, Snowmobile) migrate petabytes of data offline when network transfer takes >1 week
  • Storage Gateway bridges on-premises and AWS with three types: File Gateway (NFS/SMB), Volume Gateway (iSCSI), and Tape Gateway
  • FSx for Windows provides fully managed Windows file servers with SMB/NTFS support and Active Directory integration
  • FSx for Lustre delivers high-performance parallel file systems for HPC and ML with seamless S3 integration
  • FSx for NetApp ONTAP and OpenZFS support migrating existing NAS workloads to AWS with native protocols

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