Cloud Storage Gateway is a gateway service that you can deploy on the premises or in the cloud. This service provides a seamless and secure connection between your on-premises IT infrastructure and cloud-based storage services at the back end, such as Alibaba Cloud Object Storage Service (OSS). Cloud Storage Gateway supports standard storage protocols in the industry, such as NFS, SMB, and iSCSI, and locally caches frequently accessed data to achieve low latency in data access. Based on Cloud Storage Gateway, you can securely store data in Alibaba Cloud OSS.
Benefits
- Flexible deployment You can deploy Cloud Storage Gateway in both local data centers and ECS instances in the cloud.
- Out-of-box experience You can use Cloud Storage Gateway immediately with simple deployment that does not require writing code.
- Fast and Scalable Get the speed and convenience of local storage, with the scalability and reliability of the cloud.
- Protocol conversion The NFS and CIFS file protocols, and the iSCSI block protocol are available. These protocols are based on OSS.