AWS Storage Gateway User Guide
Creating a Gateway
2. If you haven't created a gateway in the AWS Region you selected, choose Get started. If you already
have a gateway in the AWS Region you selected, choose Gateways from the navigation pane, and
then choose Create gateway.
3. On the Select gateway type page, choose Tape gateway, and then choose Next.
Choosing a Host Platform and Downloading the VM
If you create your gateway on-premises, you deploy the hardware appliance, or download and deploy
a gateway VM, and then activate the gateway. If you create your gateway on an Amazon EC2 instance,
you launch an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) that contains the gateway VM image and then activate
the gateway. For information about supported host platforms, see Supported Hypervisors and Host
Requirements (p. 20).
Note
You can run only file, cached volume, and tape gateways on an Amazon EC2 instance.
To select a host platform and download the VM
1. On the Select host platform page, choose the virtualization platform that you want to run your
gateway on.
2. Choose Download image next to your virtualization platform to download a .zip file that contains
the .ova file for your virtualization platform.
Note
The .zip file is over 500 MB in size and might take some time to download, depending on
your network connection.
For EC2, you create an instance from the provided AMI.
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