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AWS Storage Gateway and AWS Backup

Hybrid and protection services: Storage Gateway connects on-premises environments to AWS storage with local access or caching, while AWS Backup centrally manages backups across supported services.

Key points

  • Storage Gateway supports hybrid storage patterns and local protocols backed by AWS storage.
  • AWS Backup centralizes backup policies, schedules, retention, and monitoring for supported resources.
  • S3 lifecycle policies manage S3 object transitions; they are not a universal backup policy engine.

Best-known use cases

  • Give on-premises applications cached or protocol-based access to AWS storage.
  • Apply centralized backup policies across supported AWS resources.

What candidates often confuse it with

  • Storage Gateway bridges on-premises storage and AWS; AWS Backup manages backups.
  • S3 lifecycle transitions objects among classes or expires them; it does not coordinate every supported resource backup.

Key Cloud Practitioner takeaway

Hybrid cached storage points to Storage Gateway; centralized backup policy points to AWS Backup.

Related services

  • Amazon S3

Relevant exam tasks

  • D3.6

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Foundational
Duration
90 minutes
Questions
65 total; 50 scored and 15 unidentified unscored
Formats
Multiple choice and multiple response
Scoring
100–1,000 scaled score; 700 minimum passing score

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