Port Requirements - AWS Storage Gateway

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Port Requirements

Storage Gateway requires the following ports for its operation. Some ports are common to all gateway types and are required by all gateway types. Other ports are required by specific gateway types. In this section, you can find an illustration of the required ports and a list of the ports required by each gateway type.

File Gateways

The following illustration shows the ports to open for File Gateways' operation.


            network resources connected to Storage Gateway using various ports.

The following ports are common to all gateway types and are required by all gateway types.

From

To

Protocol

Port

How Used

Storage Gateway VM

Amazon Web Services

Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)

443 (HTTPS)

For communication from an Storage Gateway VM to an AWS service endpoint. For information about service endpoints, see Allowing AWS Storage Gateway access through firewalls and routers.

Your web browser

Storage Gateway VM

TCP

80 (HTTP)

By local systems to obtain the Storage Gateway activation key. Port 80 is used only during activation of a Storage Gateway appliance.

A Storage Gateway VM doesn't require port 80 to be publicly accessible. The required level of access to port 80 depends on your network configuration. If you activate your gateway from the Storage Gateway Management Console, the host from which you connect to the console must have access to your gateway’s port 80.

Storage Gateway VM

Domain Name Service (DNS) server

User Datagram Protocol (UDP)/UDP

53 (DNS)

For communication between a Storage Gateway VM and the DNS server.

Storage Gateway VM

Amazon Web Services

TCP

22 (Support channel)

Allows Amazon Web Services Support to access your gateway to help you with troubleshooting gateway issues. You don't need this port open for the normal operation of your gateway, but it is required for troubleshooting.

Storage Gateway VM

Network Time Protocol (NTP) server

UDP

123 (NTP)

Used by local systems to synchronize VM time to the host time. A Storage Gateway VM is configured to use the following NTP servers:

  • 0.amazon.pool.ntp.org

  • 1.amazon.pool.ntp.org

  • 2.amazon.pool.ntp.org

  • 3.amazon.pool.ntp.org

Note

Not required for gateways hosted on Amazon EC2.

AWS Storage Gateway Hardware Appliance

Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) proxy

TCP

8080 (HTTP)

Required briefly for activation.

The following table lists the required ports that must be opened for a File Gateway using either the Network File System (NFS) or Server Message Block (SMB) protocol. These port rules are part of your security group definition.

Rule Network Element File Share Type Protocol Port Inbound Outbound Required? Notes
1 File share client NFS TCP/UDP Data 111 File sharing data transfer (for NFS only)
TCP/UDP NFS 2049 File sharing data transfer (for NFS only)
TCP/UDP NFSv3 20048 File sharing data transfer (for NFS only)
SMB TCP/UDP SMBv2 139 File sharing data transfer session service (for SMB only); replaces ports 137–139 for Microsoft Windows NT and later
TCP/UDP SMBv3 445 File sharing data transfer session service (for SMB only); replaces ports 137–139 for Microsoft Windows NT and later
2 Web browser NFS and SMB TCP HTTP 80 Amazon Web Services Management Console (activation only)
TCP HTTPS 443 Amazon Web Services Management Console (all other operations)
3 DNS NFS and SMB TCP/UDP DNS 53 IP name resolution
4 NTP NFS and SMB UDP NTP 123

Time synchronization service

Note

Not required for gateways hosted on Amazon EC2.

5 Microsoft Active Directory SMB UDP NetBIOS 137 Name service (not used for NFS)
UDP NetBIOS 138 Datagram service
TCP/UDP LDAP 389 Microsoft Active Directory - Directory System Agent (DSA); client connection
TCP/UDP Kerberos 88
TCP Distributed Computing Environment/End Point Mapper (DCE/EMAP) 135
6 Amazon S3 NFS and SMB HTTPS data 443 Storage data transfer
7 Storage Gateway NFS and SMB TCP SSH 22 Support channel
TCP HTTPS 443 Management control
8 Amazon CloudFront NFS and SMB TCP HTTPS 443 For activation