Storage Gateway

Question 1

What are the three configurations available in Storage Gateway?

Answer 1

File
Volume
Tape

Question 2

What is file gateway?

Answer 2

It stored files in s3 and allows you to map the drive as if it were local

Question 3

Does file gateway store recent files in a local cache?

Answer 3

Yes

Question 4

Explain data storage in the volume gateway?

Answer 4

Data is saved locally and assynchronously synced to s3

Question 5

Volume storage gateways, and cached volume gateways. What does the storage buffer do?

Answer 5

Stores files waiting to be uploaded to s3

Question 6

Explain storage in cached volume gateways

Answer 6

Stroage is primarily on s3. There’s also a local copy.

Question 7

Volume Gateways and Cached Volume Gateways write data to s3 in what format?

Answer 7

EBS snapshots

Question 8

What is AWS direct connect?

Answer 8

Allows you to eatable a private connectivity between AWS and your data centre/office/location.