My best experience with AWS
What do you like best about the product?
Flexible and AWS enables you to select the operating system programming language and web applications and also it will give virtual environment that lets us load software and services
What do you dislike about the product?
AWS is very sophisticated horizontal could and very flexible to extend it for business needs and its very flexible to store and retrive the data
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It’s very innovative and advance cloud service to handle the huge amount of data
it can manage cloud storage backup and recovery automatically!
What do you like best about the product?
i have been using it for 1-2 years , as our business grows in size we need large amount of storage on cloud as well to allow your application to run smoothly and we also need to ensure data is backed up and secure , so to do these task manually takes lots of time and lots of efforts and for which we need to invest huge amount too , AWS storage gateway will clear all these huddels by automating these tasks , so that you can buy more storage without any worry it can be easily handled by AWS Storage gateway , so thus how all your data are managed and backed up securely !
What do you dislike about the product?
it's hard to implement , it's highly automated and less customizable , quality of support is not so good!!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
we use it to manage and backup data storage with it!
Recommendations to others considering the product:
it's one of the best service to make you application scale able automatically and securely , and it's very easy to use any kind of backup strategy using AWS Storage Gateway!
Best storage for backups
What do you like best about the product?
Rather us spending physical hardwares to store put backups and files, AWS has provided us this and whats best is that its cheaper!
What do you dislike about the product?
I have nothing to dislike about their services.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have been spending much of our money with hardwares to store our backups and files, AWS helped us cut out most of the spending. And without even having problems about hardware maintenance, everything else now is in the cloud
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Use this rather than spinning up ec2 servers just for backups. youll save more!
Did not work well for my environment
What do you like best about the product?
Cheap and reliable offsite backup storage
What do you dislike about the product?
Never could complete a 2TB backup from my facility to AWS. This is not necessarily the fault of AWS. I'm sure the backup product I was using with AWS was mostly at fault.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Cost effective offsite backup storage
Super simple and Reliable
What do you like best about the product?
I love how easy it is to set up and access our data. I also love knowing our data is safe.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's a bit less user-friendly than I prefer, but once I got my head around it it seems to work well. It's probably more me than Amazon.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Reliable Storage of Data for Fast Access.
Great product, exponential competition
What do you like best about the product?
The AWS storage gateway has really set itself apart from the competition. They have now capitalized and partnered with Salesforce.com beating Microsoft to rule the market. Can't wait to see AWS scale in the future.
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't have many cons about AWS. I think with the lower price scale compared to other systems, Amazon has really set itself apart.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We currently use AWS with all of our Salesforce projects.
simple setting
AWS Storage Gateway is easy to setup though it has very difficult structure.
So I recommend this Image for everyone.
AWS Storage Gateway fourth impressions
Last year I did a blog post about AWS storage gateway initial (first, second and third) impressions.
I recently tried out the AWS Storage Gateway to assess its functionality and applicability for various use scenarios. As part of trying out the storage gateway, I tested it in cached and storage modes installed into VMs on an VMware ESXi server. I also tested it using the AWS AMI version.
Some thoughts and perspectives:
I would prefer if the gateways allowed storage access via NAS (NFS and CIFS/SMB) in addition to iSCSI. For what I wanted to use it for which is allowing different servers or systems to move or access storage in AWS, I ended up using a Windows Server to mount the iSCSI volume and then create a share for the servers to access the volume. A work around would be to create multiple iSCSI volumes and present those to various servers that can access them.
Reporting could also be better to see or view where your data goes into S3 when using cached mode. Viewing snapshots is straight forward using EC2/EBS console viewing tools. However, data going into S3 stores is not visible with current reporting tools.
Would also be nice to be able to indicate S3 stores to be migrated to Glacier, or, have the ability to tell the gateway to move data into Glacier for archiving or other uses.
AWS does a good job during the setup and install to give some basic info on costs, pay attention to those notes as well as other details during the install.
Thanks to AWS support. I had an issue during installation and issued a tweet saying I was giving AWS storage gateway an "I" for incomplete grade. Within an hour an unsolicited email from AWS support arrived asking how they could help and from there we got it working.
When doing your homework for solution to move or access data to/from AWS, check out the AWS gateway which for iSCSI environments could be a contender for you.
Will put some other info on my blog, which can be seen on my author’s page as well as via Kindle when I get a chance.
Cheers gs
Author Cloud and Virtual Data Storage Networking (CRC Press) Available on Amazon.com
