Creating a gateway on your hardware appliance - Amazon Storage Gateway
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Creating a gateway on your hardware appliance

Note

End of availability notice: As of May 12, 2025, the Amazon Storage Gateway Hardware Appliance will no longer be offered. Existing customers with the Amazon Storage Gateway Hardware Appliance can continue to use and receive support until May 2028. As an alternative, you can use the Amazon Storage Gateway service to give your applications on-premises and in-cloud access to virtually unlimited cloud storage.

You can create an S3 File Gateway, FSx File Gateway, Tape Gateway, or Volume Gateway on any Storage Gateway Hardware Appliance in your deployment.

To create a gateway on your hardware appliance

  1. Sign in to the Amazon Web Services Management Console and open the Storage Gateway console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/storagegateway/home.

  2. Follow the procedures described in Creating Your Gateway to set up, connect, and configure the type of Storage Gateway that you want to deploy.

When you finish creating your gateway in the Storage Gateway console, the Storage Gateway software automatically starts installing on the hardware appliance. If you use Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), it can take 5 to 10 minutes for a gateway to display as online in the console. To assign a static IP address to your installed gateway, see Configuring an IP address for the gateway.

To assign a static IP address to your installed gateway, you next configure the gateway's network interfaces so your applications can use it.

Next step

Configuring a gateway IP address on the hardware appliance