Amazon Web Services Inc. stands as the second largest global provider of enterprise storage solutions — behind Dell Technologies Inc.

The quest for constant improvement and innovation in hybrid helped drive the addition of new products to the company’s AWS Storage Gateway product suite.

“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 call gateways,” said Mark Cree (pictured, right), general manager of AWS Storage Gateway. “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.”

Cree and Siddhartha Roy (pictured, left), general manager of Snow Family at AWS, spoke to Dave Vellante, host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, during the AWS Storage Day event. They discussed the current AWS cloud storage offerings, including Storage Gateway, Snowcone and Snowball Edge. (* Disclosure below.)

Offering organizations palpable value

The measure of a product’s (or service’s) worth is how much value it can offer customers. Storage gateway, for its part, offers organizations improved speed, flexibility and efficiency in running storing, recovering, and analytics on their repositories.

“What we’re doing is we’re allowing the customer to basically digitize in the cloud, all of their legacy tapes. This, I think, is a huge industry, and we’ve got some great customers, and one would be Formula One. They’ve used virtual tape library, our gateway to basically reduce the recovery time from five days down to one,” Cree stated.

AWS Storage Gateway is really a suite of four products (or gateways). The Volume Tateway connects block storage to cloud repositories for file sharing and backups, and the File Gateway allows organizations to move inactive data into the cloud in AWS S3. Then there’s the FSX Gateway and virtual Tape Gateway.

Roy and Cree also spoke about AWS’ Snow-tagged products. Snowcone is a portable, rugged device that can capture data from sensory endpoints and industrial equipment.

“With 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,” Roy said.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the AWS Storage Day event. (* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for the AWS Storage Day. Neither Amazon Web Services Inc., the sponsor of theCUBE’s event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

Photo: SiliconANGLE