AWS Storage Gateway Deep Dive: Volume Gateway

Welcome to the AWS Storage Gateway Deep Dive: Volume Gateway course! Volume Gateway presents cloud-backed Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) block storage volumes to your applications to provide seamless integration between your IT environment and the Amazon Web Services (AWS) storage infrastructure for your data protection, recovery, and migration needs.

In this course, you learn to connect your on-premises applications to cloud storage using Volume Gateway. You dive deep to examine how to plan, secure, manage, monitor, and optimize Volume Gateway deployments.

      •    Course level: Advanced

      •    Duration: 75 minutes

Activities

This course includes interactive lessons, demonstrations, and knowledge check questions.

Course objectives

In this course, you will learn to do the following:

      •    Describe the benefits of hybrid cloud and AWS Storage Gateway.

      •    Design and plan a Volume Gateway deployment for a production environment.

      •    Implement the security policies and procedures necessary to safeguard your Volume Gateway appliance and data transfer to AWS.

      •    Set up a Volume Gateway appliance to connect on-premises infrastructure to AWS cloud storage services.

      •    Manage the day-to-day operations of a Volume Gateway appliance and its supporting AWS cloud infrastructure.

      •    Optimize the costs and performance of a Volume Gateway deployment.

      •    Create mechanisms for monitoring and alerting on the health and performance of a Volume Gateway appliance.

Intended audience

This course is intended for:

      •    Cloud architects 

      •    Storage administrators

      •    IT professionals

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have reviewed: 

      •    General AWS knowledge such as Cloud Practitioner Essentials

      •    Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) Primer

Course outline

Section 1: Overview

      •    Lesson 1: How to Use This Course

      •    Lesson 2: Course Introduction

Section 2: Hybrid Cloud Solutions

      •    Lesson 3: Hybrid Cloud and AWS Storage Gateway Overview

      •    Lesson 4: Cloud Computing and Hybrid Cloud Benefits

      •    Lesson 5: Hybrid Cloud Storage with AWS Storage Gateway

      •    Lesson 6: Store and Access Data with Volume Gateway

      •    Lesson 7: Pricing Model

      •    Lesson 8: Knowledge Check

Section 3: Planning and Designing a Volume Gateway Deployment

      •    Lesson 9: Volume Gateway Deployment Overview

      •    Lesson 10: Planning and Designing a Volume Gateway Deployment

      •    Lesson 11: Demonstration: Deployment of the Volume Gateway

      •    Lesson 12: Knowledge Check

Section 4: Working with Volume Gateway

      •    Lesson 13: Using Volume Gateway Overview

      •    Lesson 14: Reads, Writes, and Updates

      •    Lesson 15: Working with Volumes

      •    Lesson 16: Managing the Gateway

      •    Lesson 17: Optimizing Cost and Performance

      •    Lesson 18: Knowledge Check

Section 5: Secure and Monitor your Gateway

      •    Lesson 19: Secure and Monitor Volume Gateway Overview

      •    Lesson 20: Shared Responsibility Model

      •    Lesson 21: Granting Permissions

      •    Lesson 22: Protecting Your Data

      •    Lesson 23: Monitor and Alerting

      •    Lesson 24: Knowledge Check

Section 6: Resources

      •    Lesson 25: Additional Resources