File Gateway

• File gateway appliance is a virtual machine to bridge between your NFS and S3
• Metadata and directory structure are preserved
• Configured S3 buckets are accessible using the NFS and SMB protocol
• Each File Gateway should have an IAM role to access S3
• Most recently used data is cached in the file gateway
• Can be mounted on many servers

 

• You can use S3 events to connect to Lambda
• Do analyis use Athena

 

 

• You can set on-premise 1 to sync files to S3
• Then setup on-premise 2 to read file from S3 (read-only)

 

File Atchitectures: Other possibilites

Amazon S3 Object Versioning

• Ability to store multiple object versions as they are modified
• Helpful to restore a file to a previous version
• Could restore an entire file system to a previous version
• Must use the "RefreshCache" API on the Gateway to be notified of restore

Amazon S3 Object Lock

• Enables to have the file gateway for Write Once Read Many (WORM) data
• If there are file modifications or renames in the file share clients, the file gateway creates a new version of the object without affecting priori version, and the original locked version will remain unchanged 

 

Volume Gateway

• iSCSI protocol
• Need to restore as EBS volume

 

• iSCSI interface
• CANNOT access single file within tpes. You need to restore the tape entriely. File Gateway can access single file