--- title: AWS Storage Gateway Reviews meta_title: 'AWS Storage Gateway Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 62 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how AWS Storage Gateway works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.5 review_count: 62 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-08-04' parent_category: name: Storage Management url: https://www.g2.com/categories/storage-management --- # 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. Really Easy to Use **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Goods | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 29, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Storage Gateway?** Storage Gateway is incredibly easy to use - multiple virtualization platforms supported, and it makes the setup and configuration very straight-forward. **What do you dislike about AWS Storage Gateway?** Not a ton of flexibility on configuration, you're kind of locked in to the options they have. **What problems is AWS Storage Gateway solving and how is that benefiting you?** COnsolidating file servers, backups, and ROBO storage. ### 2. My best experience with AWS **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mallikarjuna D. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 28, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Storage Gateway?** Flexible and AWS enables you to select the operating system programming language and web applications and also it will give virtual environment that lets us load software and services **What do you dislike about AWS Storage Gateway?** AWS is very sophisticated horizontal could and very flexible to extend it for business needs and its very flexible to store and retrive the data **What problems is AWS Storage Gateway solving and how is that benefiting you?** It’s very innovative and advance cloud service to handle the huge amount of data ### 3. Tape backup? **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Storage Gateway?** I do not want to do tape backup anymore, so using a more modern approach to a tedious task is awesome. **What do you dislike about AWS Storage Gateway?** I would love if the price was lower as I have had projects where the cloud storage cost was a dealbreaker **What problems is AWS Storage Gateway solving and how is that benefiting you?** Backup ### 4. Great service **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Civil Engineering | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Storage Gateway?** The ability to store all my data in one central location. **What do you dislike about AWS Storage Gateway?** The amount of time it takes to upload data. **What problems is AWS Storage Gateway solving and how is that benefiting you?** On premise storage and tape backups. I’ve realized that it’s cheaper to upload to the cloud. ### 5. Enterprise level ease of use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 31, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Storage Gateway?** High level enterprising ease of use. Encryption level access. **What do you dislike about AWS Storage Gateway?** Could use a more user friendly UI. System at times is slow. **What problems is AWS Storage Gateway solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ease of storage. Not having a physical storage on site saves a lot of space. ### 6. Gateway for microservices **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Storage Gateway?** ease of use when deploying applicaiton as a service **What do you dislike about AWS Storage Gateway?** compatibility to other gateway sevices to make it more easy **What problems is AWS Storage Gateway solving and how is that benefiting you?** Monolith to Microservices ### 7. Best storage for backups **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Construction | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 22, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Storage Gateway?** Rather us spending physical hardwares to store put backups and files, AWS has provided us this and whats best is that its cheaper! **What do you dislike about AWS Storage Gateway?** I have nothing to dislike about their services. **Recommendations to others considering AWS Storage Gateway:** Use this rather than spinning up ec2 servers just for backups. youll save more! **What problems is AWS Storage Gateway solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have been spending much of our money with hardwares to store our backups and files, AWS helped us cut out most of the spending. And without even having problems about hardware maintenance, everything else now is in the cloud ### 8. The AWS Storage Gateway is the one you want! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 20, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Storage Gateway?** The integrated hybrid cloud storage is the all in one solution for your storage needs along with services like IAM, Analytics, Security etc. **What do you dislike about AWS Storage Gateway?** The prices compared to competitors is slightly on the higher side. Also, fewer availability zones in Europe area compared to other cloud providers. **What problems is AWS Storage Gateway solving and how is that benefiting you?** Data Analytics and Machine Learning with AWS Reckognition. ### 9. aws storage gateway **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Media Production | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Storage Gateway?** The product is easy to setup and manage. **What do you dislike about AWS Storage Gateway?** The reads and writes gets delayed sometimes. **What problems is AWS Storage Gateway solving and how is that benefiting you?** archival of huge data ### 10. Simple and easy to categorize **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Real Estate | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 28, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Storage Gateway?** I like the ability to move our files off of our Wistia video hosting site **What do you dislike about AWS Storage Gateway?** The monthly cost is not commensurate to the storage value **Recommendations to others considering AWS Storage Gateway:** Negotiate pricing or consider the enterprise version **What problems is AWS Storage Gateway solving and how is that benefiting you?** Extreme collaboration and efficiency in accessing docs ### 11. Did not work well for my environment **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 20, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Storage Gateway?** Cheap and reliable offsite backup storage **What do you dislike about AWS Storage Gateway?** Never could complete a 2TB backup from my facility to AWS. This is not necessarily the fault of AWS. I'm sure the backup product I was using with AWS was mostly at fault. **What problems is AWS Storage Gateway solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cost effective offsite backup storage ### 12. Great product, exponential competition **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Thomas (Bart) Y. | Manager, Computer & Network Security, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 19, 2017 **What do you like best about AWS Storage Gateway?** The AWS storage gateway has really set itself apart from the competition. They have now capitalized and partnered with Salesforce.com beating Microsoft to rule the market. Can't wait to see AWS scale in the future. **What do you dislike about AWS Storage Gateway?** I don't have many cons about AWS. I think with the lower price scale compared to other systems, Amazon has really set itself apart. **What problems is AWS Storage Gateway solving and how is that benefiting you?** We currently use AWS with all of our Salesforce projects. ## 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 - [View AWS Storage Gateway pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-storage-gateway/reviews?page=2§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-08-04+19%3A29%3A53+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=87261c2e-af00-451d-b9cd-5a0568f3bdab&secure%5Btoken%5D=5ff5147260afc73e63fbb4064d344f3089afba731196adeeadd35aa492eb938c&format=llm_user) ## 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 - [Google Cloud Storage](https://www.g2.com/products/google-cloud-storage/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (564 reviews) - [Azure Storage Explorer](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-storage-explorer/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (58 reviews) - [Azure StorSimple](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-storsimple/reviews) - 4.0/5.0 (20 reviews)