AWS Storage Gateway Available in Brazil

AWS Storage Gateway is now available in South America (São Paulo).

The AWS Storage Gateway service connects a software appliance with
cloud-based storage to integrate your existing applications with
the AWS storage infrastructure in a secure, and transparent
fashion.

When was launched the service in January, the AWS Storage Gateway was being put to use in a number of  ways,
including:

• DR and Business Continuity: You can reduce your investment in hardware set aside for Disaster
  Recovery using a cloud-based approach. You can send snapshots of your
  data to the cloud on a frequent basis and use our VM Import service to move
  your virtual machine images to the cloud.
• 
  Backup: You can backup local data
  to the cloud without worrying about running out of storage space. It is easy to
  schedule the backups, and you don’t have to arrange to ship tapes off-site or
  manage your own infrastructure in a second data center.
• 
  Data Migration: You can move data
  from your data center to the cloud, and back. For example, if
  you’re running development and test environments in EC2, you can use the
  Storage Gateway to provide these environments with ongoing access to the latest
  data from your production systems on-premises.

Using the AWS Storage Gateway, data stored in your data center can be
backed up to Amazon S3 over an encrypted channel, where it is stored as Amazon
EBS snapshots. Once there, you will benefit from S3’s low cost and intrinsic
redundancy. In the event you need to retrieve a backup of your data, you can restore these snapshots locally to your on-premises hardware. You can also
access them as Amazon EBS volumes, enabling you to mirror data
between your on-premises and Amazon EC2-based applications.

With today’s release, the AWS Storage Gateway is available in all
seven of the public AWS Regions. You can choose to upload your on-premises data
to the region that is closest to you. You can also
select the region location that best addresses your special regulatory or
business constraints for storing data.

You can get started with our free 60 day trial of the
AWS Storage Gateway visiting the Management Console to begin. After your
trial ends, there is a charge of $125 per month for each activated gateway. Snapshot
storage pricing starts at $0.125 per gigabyte per month in the US-East region and
$0.170 per gigabyte per month in our South America region.