hands-on lab

Integrating with an Amazon S3 File Gateway

Beginner

Up to 1h

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Lab description

AWS Storage Gateway is an offering that helps you bridge the gap between on-premise and cloud storage. It can also be used in multi-cloud scenarios to enable hybrid cloud storage access. A storage gateway can be used with the popular NFS, SMB, and iSCSI protocols to provide seamless storage access for applications.

Learning how to set up and configure an Amazon S3 File Gateway will benefit anyone who works with storage solutions in the public AWS cloud.

In this hands-on lab, you will see end-to-end how to create, configure, and use an Amazon S3 File Gateway.

Learning objectives

Upon completion of this beginner-level lab, you will be able to:

Set up a new Amazon S3 File Gateway
Create an S3-backed NFS file share
Mount the NFS share on a client machine

Intended audience

Candidates for the AWS Cloud Practitioner or AWS associate-level certifications
Cloud Architects
Data Engineers
DevOps Engineers

Prerequisites

Familiarity with the following will be beneficial but is not required:

AWS Storage Gateway
Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

The following content can be used to fulfill the prerequisites:

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About the author

Andrew Burchill, opens in a new tab

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Andrew is a Labs Developer with previous experience in the Internet Service Provider, Audio Streaming, and CryptoCurrency industries. He has also been a DevOps Engineer and enjoys working with CI/CD and Kubernetes.

He holds multiple AWS certifications including Solutions Architect Associate and Professional.

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