[AusNOG] Anyone know how to... Cloud Storage

[Will Dowling]

Amazon have recently released their Storage Gateway cloud offering, 
exposing a cloud-hosted copy of a block device:

http://aws.amazon.com/storagegateway/

In its current form you point disks at the locally hosted virtual 
appliance, and it exports an iSCSI target to mount on your application 
host - it will keep a copy in the cloud and supports snapshotting.

Future iterations promise to offer a cached client, so you don't need to 
hold all the data on-site.

Interesting solution, haven't had a chance to play with it - but would 
be keen to hear from anyone who has.

Hope this helps :)


Will Dowling

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