Backup and disaster recovery often require solutions that add complexity and additional cost to properly synchronize your data and systems. Amazon Web Services™ (AWS) helps drive this cost and complexity with a number of services. Amazon S3 provides a highly durable (99.999999999%) storage platform for your backups. This service backs up your data to multiple availability zones (AZ) to provide you the ultimate peace of mind for your data. AWS also provides an ultra-low cost service for long-term cold storage that is aptly named Glacier. At $0.01 per GB / month this service will force you to ask, “Why am I not using AWS today?”
AWS has developed the AWS Storage Gateway to make your backups secure and efficient. For only $125 per backup location per month, you will have a robust solution that provides the following features:
- Secure transfers of all data to AWS S3 storage
- Compatible with your current architecture – there is no need to call up your local storage vendor for a special adapter or firmware version to use Storage Gateway
- Designed for AWS – this provides a seamless integration of your current environment to AWS services
AWS Storage Gateway and Amazon EC2 (snapshots of machine images) together provide a simple cloud-hosted DR solution. Amazon EC2 allows you to quickly launch images of your production environment in AWS when you need them. The AWS Storage Gateway seamlessly orchestrates with S3 to provide you a robust backup and disaster recovery solution that meets anyone’s budget.
-Matt Whitney, Sales Executive
