Using the Amazon Storage Gateway Hardware Appliance

The Amazon Storage Gateway Hardware Appliance is a physical hardware appliance with the Storage Gateway software preinstalled on a validated server configuration. You can manage the hardware appliances in your deployment from the Hardware appliance overview page in the Amazon Storage Gateway console.

The hardware appliance is a high-performance 1U server that you can deploy in your data center, or on-premises inside your corporate firewall. When you buy and activate your hardware appliance, the activation process associates the hardware appliance with your Amazon Web Services account. After activation, your hardware appliance appears in the console as a gateway on the Hardware appliance overview page. You can configure the hardware appliance as an S3 File Gateway, FSx File Gateway, Tape Gateway, or Volume Gateway type. The procedure that you use to deploy and activate these gateway types on a hardware appliance is same as on a virtual platform.

For a list of supported Amazon Web Services Regions where the Amazon Storage Gateway Hardware Appliance is available for activation and use, see Amazon Storage Gateway Hardware Appliance Regions in the Amazon Web Services General Reference.

In the sections that follow, you can find instructions about how to set up, rack mount, power, configure, activate, launch, use, and delete an Amazon Storage Gateway Hardware Appliance.