AWS Storage Gateway Primer: Volume Gateway

This course introduces the AWS Storage Gateway and the various interfaces it provides to enable your on-premises workloads to access data stored in AWS Cloud storage. This course focuses on the volume gateway interface. You learn how the volume gateway works, how to create and configure it, how to use and secure its resources, and how to monitor its performance.

Intended Audience

This course is intended for:

• Storage engineers
• System administrators
• Cloud architects
• Other IT professionals

Course Objectives

In this course, you will learn how to:

• Benefits of using AWS Storage Gateway
• Describe the AWS volume gateway architecture and how it works
• Use the basic features of volume gateway in cached and stored volume modes
• Apply AWS security for volume gateway resources
• Select Amazon CloudWatch metrics for monitoring the volume gateway
• Evaluate the benefits of volume gateway by examining use cases

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have the following prerequisites:

• AWS Storage Ecosystem

Delivery Method

This course is delivered through:

• Digital training

Duration

• 90 minutes

Course Outline

This course covers the following concepts:

• Module One: Introduction to AWS Storage Gateway
  • What is AWS Storage Gateway
  • Benefits of using AWS Storage Gateway
  • How the different storage interfaces work
  • Use cases and case studies
  • Pricing and billing
• Module Two: Volume gateway basics
  • Overview of the volume gateway
  • Configuring the volume gateway
  • Storage Gateway security
  • Monitoring the volume gateway
  • Use cases for volume gateway
• Module Three: Volume gateway demonstrations
  • Creating and activating a volume gateway
  • Creating a volume
  • Mounting the volume on a Linux host
  • Mounting the volume on a Windows host
  • Using Amazon CloudWatch to monitor the gateway
• Module Four: Volume gateway assessment
  • Multiple-choice questions