Amazon intros AWS Storage Gateway

BANGALORE, INDIA: Cloud company Amazon announced AWS Storage Gateway, a service connecting on-premises software appliance with cloud-based storage to provide secure integration between an organization’s on-premises IT environment and AWS’s storage infrastructure, says an update on the company's website.

The service enables users to upload data to the AWS cloud for back-up and disaster recovery, it adds.

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It supports industry-standard storage protocols that work with existing applications, and provides low-latency performance by maintaining data on your on-premises storage hardware while asynchronously uploading this data to AWS, where it is encrypted and securely stored in the Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).

Using the AWS Storage Gateway, users can also back up point-in-time snapshots of on-premises application data to Amazon S3 for future recovery. moreover, it can also mirror this data to Amazon EC2 instances.