AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate SAA-C03 Practice Question
An organization needs a cost-effective solution to back up its on-premises data to the cloud. Which AWS service allows the company to connect its local environment to cloud storage for seamless backups?
AWS Storage Gateway offers file, volume, and tape gateway modes that expose standard protocols (NFS, SMB, iSCSI, iSCSI-VTL). These gateways cache data locally while durably storing it in Amazon S3 or low-cost archival classes, enabling existing backup software to write directly to AWS with minimal changes.
AWS DataSync can move large amounts of data very quickly and can run on an hourly schedule, but it is optimized for bulk migrations or periodic synchronization jobs and does not present a persistent storage interface or local cache for backup applications.
AWS Backup centrally orchestrates backups for AWS services and-when used with AWS Backup Gateway-can also protect on-premises VMware workloads; however, it is not intended to function as a storage endpoint for arbitrary file or tape backups from on-premises systems.
AWS Snowball Edge is a portable, rugged appliance for offline data transfer or edge compute and is unsuitable for continuous hybrid backups.
Ask Bash
Bash is our AI bot, trained to help you pass your exam. AI Generated Content may display inaccurate information, always double-check anything important.
What is AWS Storage Gateway and how does it work?
Open an interactive chat with Bash
What are the advantages of using AWS Storage Gateway for backups?
Open an interactive chat with Bash
How does AWS DataSync differ from AWS Storage Gateway?