A company wants to back up their on-premises file servers to AWS. They want to keep frequently accessed files locally for low-latency access, while seamlessly storing older files in Amazon S3. Which AWS Storage Gateway type should they use?

Answer options:

Volume Gateway - Stored Volumes

Volume Gateway - Cached Volumes

Tape Gateway

File Gateway

How to approach this question

Identify the need for file-level access (NFS/SMB) backed by S3 with local caching.

Full Answer

D.File Gateway✓ Correct

File Gateway

AWS Storage Gateway's S3 File Gateway supports a file interface into Amazon S3. It allows you to store and retrieve objects in S3 using industry-standard file protocols (NFS and SMB), while caching recently accessed data locally.

Common mistakes

Choosing Cached Volumes, which provide block storage (iSCSI), not file storage.

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