Overview
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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 tape gateway interface. You learn how the tape 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:
- Use AWS Storage Gateway
- Describe the AWS tape gateway architecture and how it works
- Use the basic features of tape gateway and how to create tapes and archive them in Amazon S3
- Apply AWS security for tape gateway resources
- Select Amazon CloudWatch metrics for monitoring the tape gateway
- Evaluate the benefits of tape 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: Tape gateway basics
- Overview of the tape gateway
- Configuring tape gateway
- Storage Gateway security
- Monitoring the tape gateway
- Scenario: Virtual tape library backup of tape gateway
- Module Three: Tape gateway demonstrations
- Creating and activating a tape gateway
- Creating tapes use them as backup applications to access and eject tapes
- Using Amazon CloudWatch to monitor the gateway
- Module Four: Tape gateway assessment
- Multiple-choice questions
