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Cloud storage with AWS storage gateway

Cloud storage with AWS storage gateway

- [Instructor] One of the challenges businesses face when moving to the cloud is bridging the gap between their on-premises environment and the cloud infrastructure. You may want to use cloud backed storage but your applications still need to remain on-premises, maybe because they're legacy applications, or simply because it's a complex migration. AWS Storage Gateway helps to address this problem. Simply put, it allows you to connect on-premises workloads with cloud-based storage. This is a win-win for businesses and administrators. Businesses benefit from having access to virtually unlimited, low latency cloud backed storage, while administrators benefit from having a simplified storage management solution. And it's easy for developers too because they don't need to change application code. Storage Gateway offers three types of gateways. File-based file gateways are available as Amazon S3 file gateway…

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