AWS Storage Gateway Primer: File Gateway

Description

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 file gateway interface. You learn how the file 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:

• Describe the AWS file gateway architecture and how it works
• Use the basic features of file gateway and file shares
• Apply AWS security for file gateway resources
• Select Amazon CloudWatch metrics for monitoring the file gateway
• Evaluate the benefits of file 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: File gateway basics
  • Overview of the file gateway
  • Configuring the file gateway
  • Storage gateway security
  • Monitoring the file gateway
  • Use cases for file gateway
• Module Three: File gateway demonstrations
  • Creating and activating a file gateway
  • Creating an NFS file share and mounting it on a Linux host
  • Creating an SMB file share and mounting it on a Windows host
  • Using Amazon CloudWatch to monitor the gateway
• Module Four: File gateway assessment
  • Multiple-choice questions