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# AWS Storage Gateway Reviews
**Vendor:** Amazon Web Services (AWS)  
**Category:** [Hybrid Cloud Storage Solutions](https://www.g2.com/categories/hybrid-cloud-storage-solutions)  
**Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0  
**Total Reviews:** 62
## About AWS Storage Gateway
AWS Storage Gateway is a service that connect an on-premises software appliance with cloud-based storage to provide seamless and secure integration between an organizations on-premises IT environment and AWS's storage infrastructure.




## AWS Storage Gateway Reviews
  ### 1. Gateways are promising, but not ready for primetime

**Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** June 12, 2019

**What do you like best about AWS Storage Gateway?**

Easy to setup - they run on a wide variety of of virtualization platforms. Great for very basic file ingestion to S3 and Glacier. We continue to use the SMB gateway to write from legacy applications and ingest the data sets to S3.

**What do you dislike about AWS Storage Gateway?**

We've had problems with performance on Virtual Tape Gateways, NFS Gateways and SMB Gateways. The gateway has no problem keeping up with uploading objects to Glacier and S3. However, virtual tapes had issues retrieving data virtual tapes - we were only able to restore 1 file at a time when attempting batch restores. SMB & NFS gateways were able to upload to S3 as fast as we could send data, but failed to flush the buffer - resulting in failed writes.

**Recommendations to others considering AWS Storage Gateway:**

1. Ensure that you're meeting the sizing recommendations for the virtual appliances. 
2. Be aware of your data sets sizes - we needed to churn the maximum cache size every 8 hours. The appliance was unable to do handle this level of ingestion.
3. If you're doing a 1-time ingest from legacy storage, check out the aws cli s3 sync tool (for small datasets) or rclone (for large or complex datasets).

**What problems is AWS Storage Gateway solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We used the Virtual Tape Gateways with our backup product. The NFS & SMB gateways were used to ingest small data sets from legacy applications to S3.


## AWS Storage Gateway Discussions
  - [What are the 3 storage interface options for AWS Storage Gateway?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-are-the-3-storage-interface-options-for-aws-storage-gateway) - 1 comment

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## AWS Storage Gateway Integrations
  - [Amazon EC2](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-ec2/reviews)
  - [Amazon S3 Glacier](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-s3-glacier/reviews)
  - [SFTP To Go](https://www.g2.com/products/sftp-to-go/reviews)

## AWS Storage Gateway Features
**Performance**
- High Availability
- Low Latency
- High Scalability
- Fast Application Deployment

**Functionality**
- Simplified Management
- Monitoring Tool
- Cost-Saving

**Security**
- Business Continuity
- Data Security

## Top AWS Storage Gateway Alternatives
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