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i am bit confused between AWS S3 and AWS storage gateway as both functions the same of storing data.Can anyone explain me with example of what is the exact difference between two services offered by Amazon
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Amazon S3 File Gateway provides a seamless way to connect to the cloud in order to store application data files and backup images as durable objects in Amazon S3 cloud storage. Amazon S3 File Gateway offers SMB or NFS-based access to data in Amazon S3 with local caching.
AWS Storage Gateway is a hybrid cloud storage service that gives you on-premises access to virtually unlimited cloud storage. Storage Gateway provides a standard set of storage protocols such as iSCSI, SMB, and NFS, which allow you to use AWS storage without rewriting your existing applications.
To support these use cases AWS provides three different types of gateways: File Gateway, Volume Gateway, and Tape Gateway.
DataSync connects to existing storage systems and data sources with standard storage protocols (NFS, SMB), or using the Amazon S3 API. Storage Gateway provides a standard set of storage protocols such as iSCSI, SMB, and NFS.
1, AWS S3 is a file system. It acts as network disk. For people has no cloud experience, you can treat it as dropbox.
2, AWS Storage Gateway is an virtual interface (or in practice, it is a virtual pc running on your server) which allow you read/write data from/to aws S3 or other aws storage service transparently
You can assume S3 is dropbox itself, you can access it through web or api, and AWS Storage Gateway is the dropbox client on your pc, which simulate the dropbox as your local drive (actually a network drive in the real case).
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