In this session, we focus on the fundamentals for beginning your SAN migration strategy to the cloud. Get hands-on experience setting up Amazon EBS volumes, and learn how to optimize your volumes for performance, availability, and durability.

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Cloud Data Migration with
Amazon EBS
Lex Crosett
Enterprise Solutions Architect
Amazon Web Services
C M P 4 0 6

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Agenda
Session objective
AWS storage ecosystem
AWS Storage Gateway family
Using AWS Storage Gateway for primary storage
Using AWS Storage Gateway for migration
Cloud data migration lab

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AWS storage ecosystem
Amazon EFS
File
Amazon EBS
Amazon EC2
instance store
Block
Amazon S3/SIA Amazon Glacier
Object
Data transfer
Partner
connectors
Amazon S3
Transfer
Acceleration
Storage
Gateway
AWS
Snowball,
AWS Snow*
Amazon
Kinesis Data
Firehose
AWS Direct
Connect

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AWS Storage Gateway family
Native storage in AWS
• Objects in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) (file)
• Snapshots in Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)
(volume)
• Archives in Glacier (tape)
Gateway provides applications
• Protocol conversion and device emulation
• Caching (read-through/write-back)
• Optimized data transfer
AWS Identity and Access
Management (IAM)
Amazon
CloudWatch
AWS Key Management Service
(AWS KMS)
AWS CloudTrail
Files
(NFS or SMB)
Volumes
(iSCSI)
Tapes
(iSCSI VTL)
Amazon S3
Amazon Glacier
Amazon EBS
snapshots
Customer premises
AWS Storage Gateway
HTTPS
Gateway Service
Amazon EC2
Hardware appliance
Available form factors

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Using AWS Storage Gateway for primary storage
• Primary storage provides file, block, and object storage targets. Targets can either be extensions into the on-premises environment or a pure cloud
implementation.
• Primary storage provides first-level storage of data to customer workloads; can also be used for storage migration.
AWS Direct
Connect
VPN
gateway
Internet
or or
AWS Storage
Gateway
Customer data center
On-premises Cloud (AWS)
Traditional
storage Amazon GlacierAmazon S3/SIA
Virtualized storage
server (Amazon EC2)
Amazon EBS
Servers
Storage
protocols
(SCSI, NFS,
SMB or S3)
Partner provided solution in blue
S3 API
S3 API
Amazon Machine Image

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Using AWS Storage Gateway for migration
Storage Gateway service
Simulated on-premises Region—Oregon
Storage Gateway
appliance
iSCSI VolumeA B
A B
C
C
Volume
A B C D
D
D
Snap1 Snap2 Snap3
A C
AZ1
EBS
EC2A B
C D
3. Restore to
Amazon EC2
Application
server
1. Launch a Storage Gateway
2. Manual snapshot

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9. Thank you!
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Lex Crosett
crosettl@amazon.com

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