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>> Welcome back to theCUBE's coverage
of AWS Storage Day.
We're here in downtown Seattle, crisp downtown Seattle.
Winter is coming we're going to talk about
the Snow, pun intended
and also the ever expanding cloud.
The cloud it's in a way
it's like the universe.
It's moving out to the edge and to the data center,
which is literally another edge note if you think about it.
Mark Cree is here as the General Manager of AWS gateway
and Sid Roy is the G.M. of AWS Snow Family.
Folks, welcome, good to see you.
>> Thank you.
>> So Mark, talk about how
you think about on-prem and hybrid.
>> That's an excellent question, Dave.
So I represent a group of services called Storage Gateway,
and that's exactly what Storage Gateway does
is it bridges your on-prem applications with the cloud.
And the way we do that is we deliver it with
really four services that we all call,
that we call gateways,
the first one being volume gateway.
And what the volume gateway does
is give you a way to connect your block storage
on-prem with the cloud for file shares
for backup, is a popular application there
and for applications that can tolerate some latency.
That's our traditional service
then we came out with something called Virtual Tape Gateway,
which I'm personally really excited about
because we all know about, you know,
the big clunky tapes had been around for 50 years,
that you have to have trucks pick up
and go store in a mountain and all that,
with the Virtual Tape Gateway,
what we can do is we,
all of our gateways install either as a software package
on-prem or as an appliance, hardware appliance,
but we put the tape gateway on-prem
and the customer is able to back up their tapes to us
and we look like a tape drive,
virtual tape drive.
So what we're doing is we're allowing the customer
to basically digitize in the cloud,
all of their legacy tapes.
And this I think is a huge industry
and, you know, we've got some great customers,
and one would be Formula One.
They've use Virtual Tape Library,
our gateway to basically reduce the recovery time
from five days down to one.
So big impact there.
The next gateway is our File Gateway
and what our File Gateway does again,
sits on-prem, either the software package
or as a hardware appliance
and the File Gateway exposes both an SMB share
for Microsoft traffic
and then an NFS share for your NFS traffic.
And basically what we do is we front end S3
with this gateway and so the gateway caches,
so your active workflow gets really great performance,
but you can move your inactive data to the cloud in S3,
where you've got durable storage, it's, you know,
it's over multiple regions.
You can run all of our analytics on that data as well.
A good example there would be Moderna,
the company working on the COVID vaccine.
They used Storage Gateway, the file version
to move their instrumentation and scientific data
into the cloud.
Where once it's up in S3, we, you know,
we've got a really robust set of tools,
allowing them to do analytics on it.
And then finally,
but not least our last announcement
was something called FSX Gateway
and FSX is a chemical product.
We offer FSX as a windows file system
or file share in the cloud.
The gateway basically acts as a cache to that.
So a customer can put our FSX Gateway on-prem
in lieu of like a server of some sort,
and we'll cash all the traffic
for that active workflow again,
and then push their inactive data back to the
FSX File System in the cloud.
>> Cool, a lot of ways to get data into the cloud,
a lot of compatibility issues,
so excellent, thank you for that Mark.
Sid, we know about Snowball, Snowcones, Snowmobile,
all the Snows.
Where does that fit in?
>> Yeah, so let me talk about the AWS edge first.
The broader edge spectrum of AWS
spans many things from Snow, to outpost, to IOT,
where there's a lot of data being created at the edge.
Within this edge spectrum,
there's the rugged mobile edge,
which is where our Snow plays, right?
So Snow's purpose is really to capture, transform
and optionally move the data
from rugged edge to AWS, right?
And in our portfolio we have different devices.
So let me start with the Snowcone device,
we announced last year in 2020.
Snowcone is a small tissue box size device.
You know, it is portable,
it's highly mobile, portable, rugged.
It can capture data from rugged sensory
end points and industrial equipment.
And once we capture the data,
you can process the data locally right there.
And then if you have to send the data back to AWS,
you can ship the device back
or use data sync to transfer the data back into AWS.
Now, if you have higher compute needs,
where you have what we call the core edge,
where it's not portable,
but you need to kind of process there.
We have the Snowball Edge device
that can be single node or multi-node
Snowball Edge devices in groups of clusters
for storage at storage edge compute.
There, you can process like
large-scale data capture and transform it
right there with, you know,
machine learning or other
data management and analytics right there,
for real time and AI based edge local decisions.
So I'll give you a couple of examples in each category.
So for Snowcone, for example,
we are partnering with Facebook
to deliver private LTE based networks
for remote and rural areas where the connectivity
is not yet there, right?
So, we are serving those communities
in partnership with Facebook
to deliver private LTE networks.
The second example I'll give you
is with the Snowball Edge device,
that multiple nodes,
the U.S. Air Force recently demonstrated
their ABMS system,
which is the Advanced Battle Management System,
where they can do like a lot of data capture
and local assimilation with AI and ML on containers,
right on the Snowcone, on the Snowball Edge devices.
So those are two examples of how
we're doing edge local processing and capture.
>> Well, I think, I think you guys got it right.
You got a lot of ways to get data on
you know, the on-ramps into the cloud,
but I I'm particularly struck by your edge.
You know, we didn't get into the it strategy,
but the idea of processing locally,
bringing machine learning, you know,
'cause the future we think anyway is AI inferenced
where the data lives, right.
And yet, like you said,
if you want to bring it back, you can bring it back
and we have ways to get it back.
>> Mark: Right, exactly.
>> I'll give you guys the last word.
>> Last word, well, I would just say, you know,
our FSX Gateway is a relatively new announcement.
It's got some really cool applications
for high performance Microsoft applications,
but also for remote offices that want to share files.
>> Right.
>> Well guys, Mark, Sid,
thanks so much for coming on theCUBE.
>> Thank you- >> And for sharing the insights
and the data, I really appreciate it.
Okay, thank you for watching.
This is theCUBE's coverage of AWS Storage Day.
Keep it right there.
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