Many IT organizations must support distributed remote offices that have local storage needs far from central data centers. Providing cost effective, scalable storage and data protection for these branch locations can be a challenge for operations teams. In this chalk talk, an AWS customer explains how he has used AWS Storage Gateway cached and stored volumes and file shares for low-latency cloud-backed storage for on-premises applications, including local user file services. Learn from his experiences to understand your recovery and data migration options using volume clones and Amazon EBS Snapshot.

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Reducing Branch Office Storage
with AWS Storage Gateway
Adam Leggett
Manager, Information Technology
STEMCELL Technologies
S T G 3 3 2
Everett Dolgner
Solutions Architect
AWS
Bhavin Patel
Product Manager
AWS

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Agenda
AWS Storage Gateway overview
STEMCELL Technologies
Chalk talk on STEMCELL’s use cases
Q&A

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AWS Storage Gateway overview
Files
(NFS or SMB)
Volumes
(iSCSI)
Tapes
(iSCSI VTL)
Customer premises
AWS Storage Gateway
HTTPS
Gateway
appliance Service
Integrated with IAM, AWS KMS, CloudTrail, CloudWatch services
Hybrid storage service enabling applications to seamlessly use AWS storage
AWS Cloud
Amazon S3
Amazon Glacier
Amazon EBS
snapshots

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AWS Storage Gateway family
File Gateway
Store and access objects in Amazon Simple Storage
Service (Amazon S3) from SMB or NFS file-based
applications with local caching
Volume Gateway
Block storage on-premises backed by cloud storage with local caching,
Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) snapshots, and clones
Tape Gateway
Drop-in replacement for physical tape infrastructure backed by cloud
storage with local caching
Three gateway types provide file, block, and tape storage interfaces

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About STEMCELL Technologies
• Canada’s largest biotechnology company
• Privately held, based in Vancouver, BC
• ~1200 staff, offices in eight countries
• “Scientists Helping Scientists”
• Specialty products for life science research
• Cell culture, cell isolation, and accessory
products
• Quality focused

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Fits our workload Cost-effective growth Low IT overhead Fits our strategy
Why AWS Storage Gateway?
- Low latency & local
- Two to three months of
“hot” files
- Reduce capex $
- Scale without buying disk
- Small branch to corp HQ
- Use commodity servers
- No storage admin needed
- Easy backup/restore/DR
- No change to business
workflows, no retraining
- Our business is science
- Cost efficient IT services
- Grow really quickly!
- Compliance and
sovereignty

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Use case #1: File storage using Volume Gateway
STEMCELL Global Offices
Windows File
Server (VM)
HTTPS
AWS Cloud
Storage
Gateway
(cached
volume)
SMB iSCSI
Storage
Gateway
service
Amazon EBS
snapshots
(point-in-time)
AWS Region 1
AWS Cloud
AWS Region 2
DFS
Storage Gateway
(cached volume) in
Amazon EC2

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Use case #2: Archive storage using File Gateway
STEMCELL HQ AWS Cloud
File
Gateway
SMB
Amazon S3 Amazon GlacierAWS Direct
Connect

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Use case #3: Backup using File Gateway
STEMCELL Datacenter AWS Cloud
File
Gateway (VM)
SMB
Amazon S3 Amazon S3
CRR
File-level
backups
Amazon RDS
Amazon EC2
AWS Direct
Connect

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Use case #4: VM backups using File Gateway
STEMCELL DC 1 AWS Cloud
File
Gateway
(VM)
SMB
Amazon S3
Amazon S3
STEMCELL DC 2
vRangervSphere
VM Snapshot
vSphereAWS
Direct
Connect
VPN
connection

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How do I get started?
• Visit aws.amazon.com/storagegateway
• Drop by one of the demo booths
• See one of us

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Learn more in these sessions
STG305 – Session – Deep Dive: Build Hybrid Cloud Storage Architectures with AWS Storage Gateway
STG306 – Workshop – Hybrid Cloud Storage for Recovery & Migration with AWS Storage Gateway
STG 201 – Session – Tape is a Four Letter Word: Backup to the Cloud in Under an Hour
STG211 – Builder’s Session – Stop Backing up to Tape Now
STG339 – Session – Using Amazon S3 and Amazon Glacier for Backup or Archive Storage
STG357 – Session – Architecting Digital Media Archive Migrations with AWS

14. Thank you!
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Adam, Bhavin, & Everett

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