Aws Tape Storage

Tape gateway presents cloud backed storage through an iscsi based virtual tape library to your on premises backup application.

Aws tape storage.

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. You can use the vtl service to archive backup data in amazon glacier providing seamless integration between on premises environment and the aws cloud. The virtual tape library or vtl is a tape based storage solution of amazon web services storage gateway. Working of aws storage tape gateway there are three types of storage gateway available in that one service is tape gateway.

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. 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. Your tape gateway provides one virtual tape library you only can restore a tape to a tape gateway. You can backup data directly from your backup application to tape gateway.

To access data stored on an archived virtual tape you must first retrieve the tape that you want to your tape gateway. They contain blocks of data which are organized into files. 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. 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.

If you have multiple tape gateways in an aws region you can retrieve a tape to only. 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. 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. Now you have the local performance of disk a low cost highly scalable cloud back end and minimal disruption to existing systems.

The arrival of lto 8 in july 2018 enabled the system to store an exabyte of compressed lto 8 data. You have to be out of your mind to manage your own tape going forward aws ceo andy jassy said from stage announcing the new glacier deep archive service. Aws storage gateway offers file based volume based and tape based storage solutions.