Managing your Amazon S3 File Gateway - Amazon Storage Gateway
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Managing your Amazon S3 File Gateway

The topics in this section provide information about how to manage your Amazon S3 File Gateway resources. Gateway management includes granting permissions for your gateway to access file shares and Amazon S3 buckets, editing information and settings for gateways and file shares, deleting file shares, refreshing cached objects, and understanding operational status indicators for gateways and file shares.

Topics

  • Edit basic gateway information - Learn how to use the Storage Gateway console to edit basic information for an existing gateway, including the gateway name, time zone, and CloudWatch log group.

  • Granting access and permissions - Learn how use IAM roles to provide your gateway with access permissions for Amazon S3 buckets and Amazon VPC endpoints, prevent certain security issues, and connect file shares to buckets across Amazon accounts.

  • Delete a file share - Learn how to delete a file share using the Storage Gateway console.

  • Editing gateway SMB settings - Learn how to edit gateway-level SMB settings that control security strategy, Active Directory authentication, guest access, local group permissions, and file share visibility for the SMB file shares on a gateway.

  • Edit SMB file share settings - Learn how to edit settings to configure name, logging, cache refresh, storage class, file export, and more for an SMB file share.

  • Limit SMB file share access - Learn how to add allowed or denied users or groups to limit access to your SMB file share.

  • Edit NFS file share settings - Learn how to edit settings to configure name, logging, cache refresh, storage class, file export, and more for an NFS file share.

  • Edit NFS file share metadata defaults - Learn how to edit default metadata values that include Unix permissions for files and folders on NFS files shares.

  • Limit NFS file share access - Learn how to to limit access to clients from specific IP addresses or IP ranges for your NFS fileshare.

  • Refreshing Amazon S3 bucket object cache - Learn how to refresh the S3 bucket object cache for a file share and configure a schedule to refresh the cache automatically.

  • Using S3 Object Lock - Learn about how Amazon S3 File Gateway works with the S3 Object Lock feature.

  • File share status - Learn how to view and interpret file share status.

  • Gateway status - Learn how to view and interpret gateway status.

  • Managing bandwidth for your Amazon S3 File Gateway - Learn how to limit the upload throughput from your gateway to Amazon to control the amount of network bandwidth the gateway uses.