Aws Tape Storage

Aws storage gateway can be configured to act as a virtual tape library vtl which extends from on premises environment to the aws cloud s storage services amazon s3 and amazon glacier.

Aws tape storage. The aws disk format of an entire tape tapes are by nature sequential. If you have multiple tape gateways in an aws region you can retrieve a tape to only. The arrival of lto 8 in july 2018 enabled the system to store an exabyte of compressed lto 8 data. Tape gateway presents cloud backed storage through an iscsi based virtual tape library to your on premises backup application.

The aws storage gateway service offers a tape gateway configuration that gives you an alternative to physical backup tapes that fits seamlessly into your existing backup process. Aws partner network apn storage partners make it easy to use aws storage for your backups saved 65 in backup 35 costs by switching tape backups to the cloud using aws storage gateway and storing them in s3 glacier and s3 glacier deep archive. File gateway a file gateway supports a file interface into amazon simple storage service amazon s3 and combines a service and a virtual software appliance. The virtual tape library or vtl is a tape based storage solution of amazon web services storage gateway.

Aws storage gateway offers file based volume based and tape based storage solutions. They contain blocks of data which are organized into files. To access data stored on an archived virtual tape you must first retrieve the tape that you want to your tape gateway. But aws glacier would cost an amazing 72 7m at that point.

The tfinity scales out to 45 frames or large racks and could store an exabyte of compressed data in 2016 with ibm ts1150 tapes and drives. Your tape gateway provides one virtual tape library you only can restore a tape to a tape gateway. Now you have the local performance of disk a low cost highly scalable cloud back end and minimal disruption to existing systems. Tape gateway asynchronously copies your backups to aws and enables you to scale backup storage needs on premises with a pay as you go pricing.

But last week at its re invent conference in las vegas amazon web services rolled out a cloud storage service it claimed would finally make tape storage obsolete. Working of aws storage tape gateway there are three types of storage gateway available in that one service is tape gateway. To represent a tape on disk you must know when a file begins when each block of data begins and ends and when each file ends.