{"id":10963,"date":"2023-06-09T10:54:43","date_gmt":"2023-06-09T17:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.resilio.com\/blog\/?p=10963"},"modified":"2025-11-21T16:52:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T23:52:23","slug":"s3-file-gateway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.resilio.com\/blog\/s3-file-gateway","title":{"rendered":"S3 File Gateway for Efficient, Multi-Cloud File Access"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

While Amazon offers a proprietary file gateway, their solution falls short in several business use cases. In addition to being limited to use with only the Amazon Web Services cloud, Amazon\u2019s S3 file gateway lacks the<\/strong> flexibility<\/strong> (i.e., granular control over how files are synchronized and stored locally or in the cloud), efficiency<\/strong> (i.e., features that help organizations further optimize cloud costs<\/a>), and reliability<\/strong> that some organizations need in a cloud storage gateway solution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Resilio Active Everywhere, our file synchronization software, offers a superior AWS storage gateway alternative for organizations that need to extend their on premises storage to the cloud (particularly for those using other cloud storage platforms or multi-cloud storage and for remote work<\/a> and hybrid\/multi-cloud disaster recovery<\/a> use cases).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Resilio Active Everywhere provides efficient file caching and low-latency access to data stored on AWS cloud storage (or any other cloud provider) from any remote office or data center. It transforms your on-prem servers and NAS devices into flexible, efficient storage gateways by enabling you to remotely browse and selectively sync file shares stored on AWS and on-prem servers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please get in touch with us to schedule a demo<\/a> or feel free to read on. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Resilio’s file gateway solution<\/a> provides a file interface to object storage and includes features that make it well suited to caching and synchronizing large datasets between any cloud object storage (such as Amazon S3, Backblaze, Wasabi<\/a>, Azure Blobs, and more) and your on-premises facilities, such as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Highly Efficient and Cost-Effective File Access<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As an agent-based, software-only solution, Resilio can be easily deployed on your existing IT infrastructure and Windows file servers, hypervisors, and virtual machines. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It enables organizations to extend their on-premises environment to the cloud while providing full control over how data is accessed, cached, and synchronized \u2014 ultimately reducing many of the costs associated with cloud data storage, such as cloud egress traffic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. Flexibility & Vendor-Agnosticism<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Resilio is a vendor-agnostic solution that is designed to easily integrate with your existing cloud and on-premises applications. You can manage all of your on-prem and cloud storage from a single, unified interface, and tailor how data is synchronized and accessed in order to optimize your organization\u2019s specific workflow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. Highly Reliable and Resilient<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Resilio\u2019s P2P (peer-to-peer) transfer architecture and proprietary WAN acceleration technology ensure that your replication environment has no single point of failure. You can transfer data over any network (no matter how unreliable) and sync data quickly in any direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4. End-to-End Security<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

While data security is always imperative, it becomes even more important when storing data in the cloud. Resilio Active Everywhere includes built-in security features that protects data end-to-end and ensures data integrity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this post, we\u2019ll dive more into how these features solve critical business pain points for our customers, then answer some frequently asked questions about S3  file gateways.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Organizations in gaming (Blizzard, Wargaming.net), media (Warner Brothers, CBS), tech (Microsoft, Match.com), retail (McDonalds, Mercedes Benz) and more use Resilio Active Everywhere for fast, distributed hybrid cloud storage. To learn more about using Resilio as an S3 file gateway, <\/em>schedule a demo<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Highly-Efficient, Cost-Effective Access to Your Files<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Storing data in the cloud is a cost-effective way to increase data availability for business operations and disaster recovery, as well as to support remote work and collaboration among distributed teams. But most cloud storage solutions don\u2019t have efficient ways of ingesting and replicating data, and cloud costs are unnecessarily increased by vendor lock-in, cloud egress fees, and the need for multiple solutions to manage and secure your data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Resilio Active Everywhere makes hybrid cloud and multi-cloud storage more affordable by providing a seamless and efficient way to combine on-prem storage with long-term cloud object storage, freeing up space on your on-prem servers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Storing data on multiple cloud storage services is an intelligent way to maintain high availability of data and business continuity. But it also requires organizations to use multiple file gateways to access and transfer their data. Resilio Active Everywhere, however, is a software-only, vendor-agnostic solution that requires no proprietary hardware and works with any type of on-prem or cloud object storage<\/strong> \u2014 enabling organizations to deploy it on their existing IT infrastructure at low cost and manage everything from one, unified interface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Resilio Active Everywhere peer-to-peer transfer architecture means that every server in your environment can take part in replication, fully utilizing your entire bandwidth, so you can quickly synchronize data without compromising availability or performance.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By using Resilio\u2019s Management Console, you can reduce cloud egress fees\/traffic by controlling:<\/p>\n\n\n\n