Routing with AWS Transit Gateway AWS Transit Gateway supports both dynamic and static routing. By default, the network elements (VPCs; VPN or DX connections; peered TGWs) attached to a TGW are associated with its default route table, unless otherwise specified. You naturally have the choice to organize routing as you please by creating additional routing […]

Pricing Gateway endpoints are provided at no charge, other than the cost generated for using the service and transferring data. Endpoints powered by AWS PrivateLink—that is, interface endpoints and GWLB endpoints—are priced against two dimensions: the time the endpoint exists (per hour, for each AZ where the endpoint is deployed) and the amount of data […]

Gateway Endpoints A gateway endpoint is the first type of endpoint that launched on AWS, and it has been supporting connectivity to only two AWS services ever since: Amazon S3 and Amazon DynamoDB. A gateway endpoint is a routable object that you must add to your VPC or subnet route table to be able to […]

Interface Endpoints Interface endpoints, powered by AWS PrivateLink, are entry points for the traffic targeting a supported AWS service or a VPC endpoint service. Concretely, an interface endpoint consists of an Elastic Network Interface (ENI) with a private IP address taken from the address range associated with the subnet in which it is created. It […]

Quotas As with any other AWS service, AWS Storage Gateway is bound by certain quotas. These quotas can be soft or hard limits constraining the service. Different quotas apply depending on the flavor of storage gateway that you implement. Here is an indication of the main quotas for each different type, but remember to check […]

Tape Gateway Tape Gateway offers a virtual tape library (VTL) service backed by storage on Amazon S3 and accessible on-premises through the standard iSCSI protocol. Concretely, Tape Gateway comes either as a preset hardware appliance or as a software appliance that you deploy in your on-premises environment. The software appliance consists of a VM that […]

Volume Gateway Volume Gateway allows you to create storage volumes on S3 that offer a block storage interface accessible from your on-premises environment through the standard Internet Small Computer Systems Interface (iSCSI) protocol. Concretely, Volume Gateway comes either as a preset hardware appliance or as a software appliance that you deploy in your on-premises environment. […]

FSx File Gateway Amazon FSx File Gateway is a recent addition to the AWS Storage Gateway family to provide access to Amazon FSx for Windows File Server file shares on AWS from your on-premises environment. The idea is very similar to S3 File Gateway, which is that you can access the data on AWS through […]

Introducing AWS Storage Gateway AWS Storage Gateway is a service that provides a series of solutions to expand your storage infrastructure into the AWS cloud for purposes such as data migration, file shares, backup, and archiving. It uses standard protocols to access AWS storage services such as Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Amazon S3 Glacier, […]

Reviewing AWS Directory Service AWS Directory Service offers several choices for organizations to deploy existing applications on AWS that rely on Microsoft AD or Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP). This is the native AWS service to use when you need a directory to manage users, groups, devices, and access. AWS Directory Service proposes different options […]