AWS Storage Gateway Hardware Appliance now available for purchase through resellers

AWS Storage Gateway is expanding the ways you can purchase the AWS Storage Gateway Hardware Appliance, and for the first-time enabling resellers to offer the appliance. Now you can procure the hardware appliance through the reseller of your choice, and leverage your existing purchasing agreements.

AWS Storage Gateway is a hybrid cloud storage service that provides on-premises applications access to virtually unlimited storage in the cloud. You can use AWS Storage Gateway for backing up and archiving data to AWS, providing on-premises file shares backed by cloud storage, and providing on-premises applications low latency access to data in the cloud. The AWS Storage Gateway Hardware Appliance provides you with a simple out-of-the-box experience to deploy storage gateway on-premises. The hardware appliance is a physical, standalone, validated server configuration that comes pre-loaded with Storage Gateway software, and provides all the required compute, memory, network, and storage resources for creating and configuring the gateway for on-premises hybrid cloud storage deployments, and is managed from the AWS Console. The hardware appliance supports Amazon S3 File Gateway, Amazon FSx File Gateway, Tape Gateway, and Volume Gateway.

AWS has partnered with TD Synnex, a global IT distributor, to offer the AWS Storage Gateway Hardware Appliance exclusively through resellers. To purchase the hardware appliance, contact your preferred reseller for availability, pricing, and purchasing information. The Storage Gateway Hardware Appliance is supported in 16 AWS Regions. To learn more, visit the AWS Storage Gateway Hardware Appliance product page, or online documentation.