Amazon S3 File Gateway documentation has been moved to What is Amazon S3 File Gateway?
Amazon FSx File Gateway documentation has been moved to What is Amazon FSx File Gateway?
Volume Gateway documentation has been moved to What is Volume Gateway?
Document history for the Tape Gateway User Guide
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API version: 2013-06-30
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Latest documentation update: November 24, 2020
The following table describes important changes in each release of the Amazon Storage Gateway User Guide after April 2018. For notification about updates to this documentation, you can subscribe to an RSS feed.
| Change | Description | Date |
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Added option to turn maintenance updates on or off | Storage Gateway receives regular maintenance updates that can include operating system and software upgrades, fixes to address stability, performance, and security, and access to new features. You can now configure a setting to turn these updates on or off for each individual gateway in your deployment. For more information, see Managing gateway updates using the Amazon Storage Gateway console. | June 6, 2024 |
Deprecated support for Tape Gateway on Snowball Edge | It is no longer possible to host Tape Gateway on Snowball Edge devices. | March 14, 2024 |
Updated instructions for testing your gateway setup using 3rd party applications | The instructions for testing your gateway setup using 3rd party applications now describe the expected behavior if your gateway restarts during an ongoing backup job. For more information, see Using Your Backup Software to Test Your Gateway Setup. | October 24, 2023 |
Updated recommended CloudWatch alarms | The CloudWatch | October 2, 2023 |
Increased maximum tape size to 15 TiB for Tape Gateways | For Tape Gateways, the maximum size of a virtual tape is now increased from 5 TiB to 15 TiB. For more information, see Quotas for Tapes in the Storage Gateway User Guide.. | October 4, 2022 |
Separated Tape and Volume Gateway User Guides | The Storage Gateway User Guide, which previously contained information about both the tape and Volume Gateway types, has been split into the Tape Gateway User Guide and the Volume Gateway User Guide, each containing information on only one type of gateway. For more information, see Tape Gateway User Guide and Volume Gateway User Guide. | March 23, 2022 |
Updated gateway creation procedures | Procedures for creating all gateway types using the Storage Gateway console have been updated. For more information, see Creating Your Gateway. | January 18, 2022 |
New Tapes interface | The Tape overview page in the Amazon Storage Gateway console has been updated with new search and filtering features. All relevant procedures in this guide have been updated to describe the new functionality. For more information, see Managing Your Tape Gateway. | September 23, 2021 |
Support for Quest NetVault Backup 13 for Tape Gateway | Tape Gateways now support Quest NetVault Backup 13 running on Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 or Microsoft Windows Server 2016. For more information, see, see Testing Your Setup by Using Quest NetVault Backup. | August 22, 2021 |
S3 File Gateway topics removed from Tape and Volume Gateway guides | To help make the user guides for Tape Gateway and Volume Gateway easier to follow for customers setting up their respective gateway types, some unnecessary topics have been removed. | July 21, 2021 |
Support for IBM Spectrum Protect 8.1.10 on Windows and Linux for Tape Gateway | Tape Gateways now support IBM Spectrum Protect version 8.1.10 running on Microsoft Windows Server and Linux. For more information, see Testing Your Setup by Using IBM Spectrum Protect. | November 24, 2020 |
FedRAMP compliance | Storage Gateway is now FedRAMP compliant. For more information, see Compliance validation for Storage Gateway. | November 24, 2020 |
Schedule-based bandwidth throttling | Storage Gateway now supports schedule-based bandwidth throttling for tape and Volume Gateways. For more information, see Scheduling bandwidth throttling using the Storage Gateway console. | November 9, 2020 |
Cached volume and Tape Gateways local cache storage 4x increase | Storage Gateway now supports a local cache of up to 64 TB for cached volume and Tape Gateways, improving performance for on-premises applications by providing low-latency access to larger working datasets. For more information, see Recommended local disk sizes for your gateway. | November 9, 2020 |
Gateway migration | Storage Gateway now supports migrating cached Volume Gateways to new virtual machines. For more information, see Moving Cached Volumes to a New Cached Volume Gateway Virtual Machine. | September 10, 2020 |
Support for tape retention lock and write-once-read-many (WORM) tape protection | Storage Gateway supports tape retention lock on virtual tapes and write once read many (WORM). Tape retention lock lets you specify the retention mode and period on archived virtual tapes, preventing them from being deleted for a fixed amount of time up to 100 years. It includes permission controls on who can delete tapes or modify retention settings. For more information, see Using Tape Retention Lock. WORM-activated virtual tapes help ensure that data on active tapes in your virtual tape library cannot be overwritten or erased. For more information, see Write Once, Read Many (WORM) Tape Protection. | August 19, 2020 |
Order the hardware appliance through the console | You can now order the hardware appliance through the Amazon Storage Gateway console. For more information, see Using the Storage Gateway Hardware Appliance. | August 12, 2020 |
Support for Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) endpoints in new Amazon Regions | You can now activate a gateway with FIPS endpoints in the US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), and Canada (Central) Regions. For more information, see Amazon Storage Gateway endpoints and quotas in the Amazon Web Services General Reference. | July 31, 2020 |
Gateway migration | Storage Gateway now supports migrating tape and stored Volume Gateways to new virtual machines. For more information, see Moving Your Data to a New Gateway. | July 31, 2020 |
View Amazon CloudWatch alarms in the Storage Gateway console | You can now view CloudWatch alarms in the Storage Gateway console. For more information, see Understanding CloudWatch alarms. | May 29, 2020 |
Support for Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) endpoints | You can now activate a gateway with FIPS endpoints in the Amazon GovCloud (US) Regions. To choose a FIPS endpoint for a Volume Gateway, see Choosing a service endpoint. To choose a FIPS endpoint for a Tape Gateway, see Connect your Tape Gateway to Amazon. | May 22, 2020 |
New Amazon Regions | Storage Gateway is now available in the Africa (Cape Town) and Europe (Milan) Regions. For more information, see Amazon Storage Gateway endpoints and quotas in the Amazon Web Services General Reference. | May 7, 2020 |
Support for S3 Intelligent-Tiering storage class | Storage Gateway now supports S3 Intelligent-Tiering storage class. The S3 Intelligent-Tiering storage class optimizes storage costs by automatically moving data to the most cost-effective storage access tier, without performance impact or operational overhead. For more information, see Storage class for automatically optimizing frequently and infrequently accessed objects in the Amazon Simple Storage Service User Guide. | April 30, 2020 |
Tape Gateway write and read performance 2x increase | Storage Gateway increases performance for reading from and writing to virtual tapes on Tape Gateway by 2x, allowing you to perform faster backup and recovery than before. For more information, see Performance Guidance for Tape Gateways in the Storage Gateway User Guide. | April 23, 2020 |
Support for automatic tape creation | Storage Gateway now provides the ability to automatically create new virtual tapes. Tape Gateway automatically creates new virtual tapes to maintain the minimum number of available tapes you configure and then makes these new tapes available for import by the backup application, allowing your backup jobs to run without interruption. For more information, see Creating Tapes Automatically in the Storage Gateway User Guide. | April 23, 2020 |
New Amazon Region | Storage Gateway is now available in the Amazon GovCloud (US-East) Region. For more
information, see Amazon Storage Gateway
Endpoints and Quotas | March 12, 2020 |
Support for Linux Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor | Storage Gateway now provides the ability to deploy an on-premises gateway on the KVM virtualization platform. Gateways deployed on KVM have all the same functionality and features as the existing on-premises gateways. For more information, see Supported Hypervisors and Host Requirements in the Storage Gateway User Guide. | February 4, 2020 |
Support for VMware vSphere High Availability | Storage Gateway now provides support for high availability on VMware to help protect storage workloads against hardware, hypervisor, or network failures. For more information, see Using VMware vSphere High Availability with Storage Gateway in the Storage Gateway User Guide. This release also includes performance improvements. For more information, see Performance in the Storage Gateway User Guide. | November 20, 2019 |
New Amazon Region for Tape Gateway | Tape Gateway is now available in the South America (Sao Paulo) Region. For more information, see Amazon Storage Gateway Endpoints and Quotas in the Amazon Web Services General Reference. | September 24, 2019 |
Support for IBM Spectrum Protect version 7.1.9 on Linux, and for Tape Gateways an increased maximum tape size to 5 TiB | Tape Gateways now support IBM Spectrum Protect (Tivoli Storage Manager) version 7.1.9 running on Linux, in addition to running on Microsoft Windows. For more information, see Testing Your Setup by Using IBM Spectrum Protect in the Storage Gateway User Guide.. Also, for Tape Gateways, the maximum size of a virtual tape is now increased from 2.5 TiB to 5 TiB. For more information, see Quotas for Tapes in the Storage Gateway User Guide.. | September 10, 2019 |
Support for Amazon CloudWatch Logs | You can now configure File Gateways with Amazon CloudWatch Log Groups to get notified about errors and the health of your gateway and its resources. For more information, see Getting Notified About Gateway Health and Errors With Amazon CloudWatch Log Groups in the Storage Gateway User Guide. | September 4, 2019 |
New Amazon Region | Storage Gateway is now available in the Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region. For more information, see Amazon Storage Gateway Endpoints and Quotas in the Amazon Web Services General Reference. | August 14, 2019 |
New Amazon Region | Storage Gateway is now available in the Middle East (Bahrain) Region. For more information, see Amazon Storage Gateway Endpoints and Quotas in the Amazon Web Services General Reference. | July 29, 2019 |
Support for activating a gateway in a virtual private cloud (VPC) | You can now activate a gateway in a VPC. You can create a private connection between your on-premises software appliance and cloud-based storage infrastructure. For more information, see Activating a Gateway in a Virtual Private Cloud. | June 20, 2019 |
Support for moving virtual tapes from S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval to S3 Glacier Deep Archive | You can now move your virtual tapes that are archived in the S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval storage class to the S3 Glacier Deep Archive storage class for cost effective and long-term data retention. For more information, see Moving a Tape from S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval to S3 Glacier Deep Archive. | May 28, 2019 |
SMB file share support for Microsoft Windows ACLs | For File Gateways, you can now use Microsoft Windows access control lists (ACLs) to control access to Server Message Block (SMB) file shares. For more information, see Using Microsoft Windows ACLs to Control Access to an SMB File Share. | May 8, 2019 |
Integration with S3 Glacier Deep Archive | Tape Gateway integrates with S3 Glacier Deep Archive. You can now archive virtual tapes in S3 Glacier Deep Archive for long-term data retention. For more information, see Archiving Virtual Tapes. | March 27, 2019 |
Availability of Storage Gateway Hardware Appliance in Europe | The Storage Gateway Hardware Appliance is now available in Europe. For more information, see Amazon Storage Gateway Hardware Appliance Regions in the Amazon Web Services General Reference. In addition, you can now increase the useable storage on the Storage Gateway Hardware Appliance from 5 TB to 12 TB and replace the installed copper network card with a 10 Gigabit fiber optic network card. For more information, see Setting Up Your Hardware Appliance. | February 25, 2019 |
Integration with Amazon Backup | Storage Gateway integrates with Amazon Backup. You can now use Amazon Backup to back up on-premises business applications that use Storage Gateway volumes for cloud-backed storage. For more information, see Backing Up Your Volumes. | January 16, 2019 |
Support for Bacula Enterprise and IBM Spectrum Protect | Tape Gateways now support Bacula Enterprise and IBM Spectrum Protect. Storage Gateway also now supports newer versions of Veritas NetBackup, Veritas Backup Exec and Quest NetVault backup. You can now use these backup applications to back up your data to Amazon S3 and archive directly to offline storage (S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval or S3 Glacier Deep Archive). For more information, see Using Your Backup Software to Test Your Gateway Setup. | November 13, 2018 |
Support for Storage Gateway Hardware Appliance | The Storage Gateway Hardware Appliance includes Storage Gateway software preinstalled on a third-party server. You can manage the appliance from the Amazon Web Services Management Console. The appliance can host file, tape, and Volume Gateways. For more information, see Using the Storage Gateway Hardware Appliance. | September 18, 2018 |
Compatibility with Microsoft System Center 2016 Data Protection Manager (DPM) | Tape Gateways are now compatible with Microsoft System Center 2016 Data Protection Manager (DPM). You can now use Microsoft DPM to back up your data to Amazon S3 and archive directly to offline storage (S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval or S3 Glacier Deep Archive). For more information, see Testing Your Setup by Using Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager. | July 18, 2018 |
Support for Server Message Block (SMB) protocol | File Gateways added support for the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol to file shares. For more information, see Creating a File Share. | June 20, 2018 |
Support for file share, cached volumes, and virtual tape encryption | You can now use Amazon Key Management Service (Amazon KMS) to encrypt data written to a file share, cached volume, or virtual tape. Currently, you can do this by using the Amazon Storage Gateway API. For more information, see Data encryption using Amazon KMS. | June 12, 2018 |
Support for NovaStor DataCenter/Network | Tape Gateways now support NovaStor DataCenter/Network. You can now use NovaStor DataCenter/Network version 6.4 or 7.1 to back up your data to Amazon S3 and archive directly to offline storage (S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval or S3 Glacier Deep Archive). For more information, see Testing Your Setup by Using NovaStor DataCenter/Network. | May 24, 2018 |
Earlier updates
The following table describes important changes in each release of the Amazon Storage Gateway User Guide before May 2018.
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Support for S3 One Zone_IA storage class |
For File Gateways, you can now choose S3 One Zone_IA as the default storage class for your file shares. Using this storage class, you can store your object data in a single Availability Zone in Amazon S3. For more information, see Create a file share. |
April 4, 2018 |
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New Region |
Tape Gateway is now available in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) Region. For detailed information, see Amazon Regions. |
April 3, 2018 |
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Support for refresh cache notification, requester pays, and canned ACLs for Amazon S3 buckets. |
With File Gateways, you can now be notified when the gateway finishes refreshing the cache for your Amazon S3 bucket. For more information, see RefreshCache.html in the Storage Gateway API Reference. File Gateways now allow the requester or reader instead of the bucket owner to pay for access charges. File Gateways now allow you to give full control to the owner of the S3 bucket that maps to the NFS file share. For more information, see Create a file share. |
March 1, 2018 |
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Support for Dell EMC NetWorker V9.x |
Tape Gateways now support Dell EMC NetWorker V9.x. You can now use Dell EMC NetWorker V9.x to back up your data to Amazon S3 and archive directly to offline storage (S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval or S3 Glacier Deep Archive). For more information, see Testing Your Setup by Using Dell EMC NetWorker. |
February 27, 2018 |
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New Region |
Storage Gateway is now available in the Europe (Paris) Region. For detailed information, see Amazon Regions. |
December 18, 2017 |
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Support for file upload notification and guessing of the MIME type |
File Gateways can now notify you when all files written to your NFS file share have been uploaded to Amazon S3. For more information, see NotifyWhenUploaded in the Storage Gateway API Reference. File Gateways now allow guessing of the MIME type for uploaded objects based on file extensions. For more information, see Create a file share. |
November 21, 2017 |
Support for VMware ESXi Hypervisor version 6.5 |
Amazon Storage Gateway now supports VMware ESXi Hypervisor version 6.5. This is in addition to version 4.1, 5.0, 5.1, 5.5, and 6.0. For more information, see Supported hypervisors and host requirements. |
September 13, 2017 |
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Compatibility with Commvault 11 |
Tape Gateways are now compatible with Commvault 11. You can now use Commvault to back up your data to Amazon S3 and archive directly to offline storage (S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval or S3 Glacier Deep Archive). For more information, see Testing Your Setup by Using Commvault. |
September 12, 2017 |
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File Gateway support for Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor |
You can now deploy a File Gateway on a Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor. For information, see Supported hypervisors and host requirements. |
June 22, 2017 |
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Support for three to five hour tape retrieval from archive |
For a Tape Gateway, you can now retrieve your tapes from archive in three to five hours. You can also determine the amount of data written to your tape from your backup application or your virtual tape library (VTL). For more information, see Viewing Tape Usage. |
May 23, 2017 |
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New Region |
Storage Gateway is now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) Region. For detailed information, see Amazon Regions. |
May 02, 2017 |
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Updates to file share settings Support for cache refresh for file shares |
File Gateways now add mount options to the file share settings. You can now set squash and read-only options for your file share. For more information, see Create a file share. File Gateways now can find objects in the Amazon S3 bucket that were added or removed since the gateway last listed the bucket's contents and cached the results. For more information, see RefreshCache in the API Reference. |
March 28, 2017 |
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Support for cloning a volume |
For cached Volume Gateways, Amazon Storage Gateway now supports the ability to clone a volume from an existing volume. For more information, see Cloning a Volume. |
March 16, 2017 |
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Support for File Gateways on Amazon EC2 |
Amazon Storage Gateway now provides the ability to deploy a File Gateway in Amazon EC2. You can launch a File Gateway in Amazon EC2 using the Storage Gateway Amazon Machine Image (AMI) now available as a community AMI. For information about how to create a File Gateway and deploy it on an EC2 instance, see Create and activate an Amazon S3 File Gateway or Create and activate an Amazon FSx File Gateway. For information about how to launch a File Gateway AMI, see Deploying an S3 File Gateway on an Amazon EC2 host or Deploying FSx File Gateway on an Amazon EC2 host. |
February 08, 2017 |
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Compatibility with Arcserve 17 |
Tape Gateway is now compatible with Arcserve 17. You can now use Arcserve to back up your data to Amazon S3 and archive directly to S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval. For more information, see Testing Your Setup by Using Arcserve Backup r17.0. |
January 17, 2017 |
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New Region |
Storage Gateway is now available in the EU (London) Region. For detailed information, see Amazon Regions. |
December 13, 2016 |
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New Region |
Storage Gateway is now available in the Canada (Central) Region. For detailed information, see Amazon Regions. |
December 08, 2016 |
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Support for File Gateway |
In addition to Volume Gateways and Tape Gateway, Storage Gateway now provides File Gateway. File Gateway combines a service and virtual software appliance, allowing you to store and retrieve objects in Amazon S3 using industry-standard file protocols such as Network File System (NFS). The gateway provides access to objects in Amazon S3 as files on an NFS mount point. |
November 29, 2016 |
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Backup Exec 16 |
Tape Gateway is now compatible with Backup Exec 16. You can now use Backup Exec 16 to back up your data to Amazon S3 and archive directly to offline storage (S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval or S3 Glacier Deep Archive). For more information, see Testing Your Setup by Using Veritas Backup Exec. |
November 7, 2016 |
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Compatibility with Micro Focus (HPE) Data Protector 9.x |
Tape Gateway is now compatible with Micro Focus (HPE) Data Protector 9.x. You can now use HPE Data Protector to back up your data to Amazon S3 and archive directly to S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval. For more information, see Testing Your Setup by Using Micro Focus (HPE) Data Protector. |
November 2, 2016 |
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New Region |
Storage Gateway is now available in the US East (Ohio) Region. For detailed information, see Amazon Regions. |
October 17, 2016 |
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Storage Gateway console redesign |
The Storage Gateway Management Console has been redesigned to make it easier to configure, manage, and monitor your gateways, volumes, and virtual tapes. The user interface now provides views that can be filtered and provides direct links to integrated Amazon services such as CloudWatch and Amazon EBS. For more information, see Sign Up for Amazon Storage Gateway. |
August 30, 2016 |
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Compatibility with Veeam Backup & Replication V9 Update 2 or later |
Tape Gateway is now compatible with Veeam Backup & Replication V9 Update 2 or later (that is, version 9.0.0.1715 or later). You can now use Veeam Backup Replication V9 Update 2 or later to back up your data to Amazon S3 and archive directly to offline storage (S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval or S3 Glacier Deep Archive). For more information, see Testing Your Setup by Using Veeam Backup & Replication. |
August 15, 2016 |
Longer volume and snapshot IDs |
Storage Gateway is introducing longer IDs for volumes and snapshots. You can activate the longer ID format for your volumes, snapshots, and other supported Amazon resources. For more information, see Understanding Storage Gateway Resources and Resource IDs. |
April 25, 2016 |
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New Region Support for storage up to 512 TiB in size for stored volumes Other gateway updates and enhancements to the Storage Gateway local console |
Tape Gateway is now available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region. For more information, see Amazon Regions. For stored volumes, you can now create up to 32 storage volumes up to 16 TiB in size each, for a maximum of 512 TiB of storage. For more information, see Stored volumes architecture and Amazon Storage Gateway quotas. Total size of all tapes in a virtual tape library is increased to 1 PiB. For more information, see Amazon Storage Gateway quotas. You can now set the password for your VM local console on the Storage Gateway Console. For information, see Setting the Local Console Password from the Storage Gateway Console. |
March 21, 2016 |
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Compatibility with for Dell EMC NetWorker 8.x |
Tape Gateway is now compatible with Dell EMC NetWorker 8.x. You can now use Dell EMC NetWorker to back up your data to Amazon S3 and archive directly to offline storage (S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval or S3 Glacier Deep Archive). For more information, see Testing Your Setup by Using Dell EMC NetWorker. |
February 29, 2016 |
Support for VMware ESXi Hypervisor version 6.0 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 iSCSI initiator Content restructure |
Amazon Storage Gateway now supports the VMware ESXi Hypervisor version 6.0 and the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 iSCSI initiator. For more information, see Supported hypervisors and host requirements and Supported iSCSI initiators. This release includes this improvement: The documentation now includes a Managing Your Activated Gateway section that combines management tasks that are common to all gateway solutions. Following, you can find instructions on how you can manage your gateway after you have deployed and activated it. For more information, see Managing Your Gateway. |
October 20, 2015 |
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Support for storage up to 1,024 TiB in size for cached volumes Support for the VMXNET3 (10 GbE) network adapter type in VMware ESXi hypervisor Performance enhancements Miscellaneous enhancements and updates to the Storage Gateway local console |
For cached volumes, you can now create up to 32 storage volumes at up to 32 TiB each for a maximum of 1,024 TiB of storage. For more information, see Cached volumes architecture and Amazon Storage Gateway quotas. If your gateway is hosted on a VMware ESXi hypervisor, you can reconfigure the gateway to use the VMXNET3 adapter type. For more information, see Configuring Network Adapters for Your Gateway. The maximum upload rate for Storage Gateway has increased to 120 MB a second, and the maximum download rate has increased to 20 MB a second. The Storage Gateway local console has been updated and enhanced with additional features to help you perform maintenance tasks. For more information, see Configuring Your Gateway Network. |
September 16, 2015 |
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Support for tagging |
Storage Gateway now supports resource tagging. You can now add tags to gateways, volumes, and virtual tapes to make them easier to manage. For more information, see Tagging Storage Gateway Resources. |
September 2, 2015 |
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Compatibility with Quest (formerly Dell) NetVault Backup 10.0 |
Tape Gateway is now compatible with Quest NetVault Backup 10.0. You can now use Quest NetVault Backup 10.0 to back up your data to Amazon S3 and archive directly to offline storage (S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval or S3 Glacier Deep Archive). For more information, see Testing Your Setup by Using Quest NetVault Backup. |
June 22, 2015 |
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Support for 16 TiB storage volumes for stored volumes gateway setups Support for system resource checks on the Storage Gateway local console Support for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 iSCSI initiator |
Storage Gateway now supports 16 TiB storage volumes for stored volumes gateway setups. You can now create 12 16 TiB storage volumes for a maximum of 192 TiB of storage. For more information, see Stored volumes architecture. You can now determine whether your system resources (virtual CPU cores, root volume size, and RAM) are sufficient for your gateway to function properly. For more information, see Viewing Your Gateway System Resource Status or Viewing Your Gateway System Resource Status. Storage Gateway now supports the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 iSCSI initiator. For more information, see Requirements. This release includes the following Storage Gateway improvements and updates:
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June 3, 2015 |
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Support for Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor versions 2012 and 2012 R2 |
Storage Gateway now supports Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor versions 2012 and 2012 R2. This is in addition to support for Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor version 2008 R2. For more information, see Supported hypervisors and host requirements. |
April 30, 2015 |
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Compatibility with Symantec Backup Exec 15 |
Tape Gateway is now compatible with Symantec Backup Exec 15. You can now use Symantec Backup Exec 15 to back up your data to Amazon S3 and archive directly to offline storage (S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval or S3 Glacier Deep Archive). For more information, see Testing Your Setup by Using Veritas Backup Exec. |
April 6, 2015 |
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CHAP authentication support for storage volumes |
Storage Gateway now supports configuring CHAP authentication for storage volumes. For more information, see Configure CHAP authentication for your volumes. |
April 2, 2015 |
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Support for VMware ESXi Hypervisor version 5.1 and 5.5 |
Storage Gateway now supports VMware ESXi Hypervisor versions 5.1 and 5.5. This is in addition to support for VMware ESXi Hypervisor versions 4.1 and 5.0. For more information, see Supported hypervisors and host requirements. |
March 30, 2015 |
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Support for Windows CHKDSK utility |
Storage Gateway now supports the Windows CHKDSK utility. You can use this utility to verify the integrity of your volumes and fix errors on the volumes. For more information, see Troubleshooting volume issues. |
March 04, 2015 |
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Integration with Amazon CloudTrail to capture API calls |
Storage Gateway is now integrated with Amazon CloudTrail. Amazon CloudTrail captures API calls made by or on behalf of Storage Gateway in your Amazon Web Services account and delivers the log files to an Amazon S3 bucket that you specify. For more information, see Logging and Monitoring in Amazon Storage Gateway. This release includes the following Storage Gateway improvement and update:
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December 16, 2014 |
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Compatibility with additional backup software and medium changer |
Tape Gateway is now compatible with the following backup software:
You can now use these four backup software products with the Storage Gateway virtual tape library (VTL) to back up to Amazon S3 and archive directly to offline storage (S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval or S3 Glacier Deep Archive). For more information, see Using Your Backup Software to Test Your Gateway Setup. Storage Gateway now provides an additional medium changer that works with the new backup software. This release includes miscellaneous Amazon Storage Gateway improvements and updates. |
November 3, 2014 |
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Europe (Frankfurt) Region |
Storage Gateway is now available in the Europe (Frankfurt) Region. For detailed information, see Amazon Regions. |
October 23, 2014 |
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Content restructure |
Created a Getting Started section that is common to all gateway solutions. Following, you can find instructions for you to download, deploy, and activate a gateway. After you deploy and activate a gateway, you can proceed to further instructions specific to stored volumes, cached volumes, and Tape Gateway setups. For more information, see Creating a Tape Gateway. |
May 19, 2014 |
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Compatibility with Symantec Backup Exec 2012 |
Tape Gateway is now compatible with Symantec Backup Exec 2012. You can now use Symantec Backup Exec 2012 to back up your data to Amazon S3 and archive directly to offline storage (S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval or S3 Glacier Deep Archive). For more information, see Testing Your Setup by Using Veritas Backup Exec. |
April 28, 2014 |
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Support for Windows Server Failover Clustering Support for VMware ESX initiator Support for performing configuration tasks on Storage Gateway local console |
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January 31, 2014 |
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Support for virtual tape library (VTL) and introduction of API version 2013-06-30 |
Storage Gateway connects an on-premises software appliance with cloud-based storage to integrate your on-premises IT environment with the Amazon storage infrastructure. In addition to Volume Gateways (cached volumes and stored volumes), Storage Gateway now supports gateway–virtual tape library (VTL). You can configure Tape Gateway with up to 10 virtual tape drives per gateway. Each virtual tape drive responds to the SCSI command set, so your existing on-premises backup applications will work without modification. For more information, see the following topics in the Amazon Storage Gateway User Guide.
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November 5, 2013 |
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Support for Microsoft Hyper-V |
Storage Gateway now provides the ability to deploy an on-premises gateway on the Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization platform. Gateways deployed on Microsoft Hyper-V have all the same functionality and features as the existing on-premises Storage Gateway. To get started deploying a gateway with Microsoft Hyper-V, see Supported hypervisors and host requirements. |
April 10, 2013 |
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Support for deploying a gateway on Amazon EC2 |
Storage Gateway now provides the ability to deploy a gateway in Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
(Amazon EC2). You can launch a gateway instance in Amazon EC2 using the
Storage Gateway AMI available in Amazon Web Services Marketplace |
January 15, 2013 |
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Support for cached volumes and introduction of API Version 2012-06-30 |
In this release, Storage Gateway introduces support for cached volumes. Cached volumes minimize the need to scale your on-premises storage infrastructure, while still providing your applications with low-latency access to their active data. You can create storage volumes up to 32 TiB in size and mount them as iSCSI devices from your on-premises application servers. Data written to your cached volumes is stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), with only a cache of recently written and recently read data stored locally on your on-premises storage hardware. Cached volumes allow you to utilize Amazon S3 for data where higher retrieval latencies are acceptable, such as for older, infrequently accessed data, while maintaining storage on-premises for data where low-latency access is required. In this release, Storage Gateway also introduces a new API version that, in addition to supporting the current operations, provides new operations to support cached volumes. For more information on the two Storage Gateway solutions, see How Tape Gateway works (architecture). You can also try a test setup. For instructions, see Creating a Tape Gateway. |
October 29, 2012 |
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API and IAM support |
In this release, Storage Gateway introduces API support as well as support for Amazon Identity and Access Management(IAM).
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May 9, 2012 |
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Static IP support |
You can now specify a static IP for your local gateway. For more information, see Configuring Your Gateway Network. |
March 5, 2012 |
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New guide |
This is the first release of Amazon Storage Gateway User Guide. |
January 24, 2012 |