Deploy a default Amazon EC2 host for S3 File Gateway
This topic lists the steps to deploy an Amazon EC2 host using the default specifications.
You can deploy and activate an Amazon S3 File Gateway on an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance. The AWS Storage Gateway Amazon Machine Image (AMI) is available as a community AMI.
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Storage Gateway community AMIs are published and fully supported by AWS. You can see that the publisher is AWS, a verified provider.
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To set up the Amazon EC2 instance, choose Amazon EC2 as the Host platform in the Platform options section of the workflow. For instructions on configuring the Amazon EC2 instance, see Deploying an Amazon EC2 instance to host your Amazon S3 File Gateway.
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Select Launch instance to open the AWS Storage Gateway AMI template in the Amazon EC2 console and customize additional settings such as Instance types, Network settings and Configure storage.
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Optionally, you can select Use default settings in the Storage Gateway console to deploy an Amazon EC2 instance with the default configuration.
The Amazon EC2 instance that Use default settings creates has the following default specifications:
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Instance type — m5.xlarge
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Network Settings
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For VPC, select the VPC that you want your EC2 instance to run in.
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For Subnet, specify the subnet that your EC2 instance should be launched in.
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VPC subnets will appear in the drop down only if they have the auto-assign public IPv4 address setting activated from the VPC management console.
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Auto-assign Public IP — Activated
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An EC2 security group is created and associated with the EC2 Instance. The security group has the following inbound port rules:
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You will need Port 80 open during gateway activation. The port is closed immediately following activation. Thereafter, your EC2 instance can only be accessed over the other ports from the selected VPC.
The file shares on your gateway are only accessible from the hosts in the same VPC as the gateway. If the file shares need to be accessed from hosts outside of the VPC, you should update the appropriate security group rules.
You can edit security groups at any time by navigating to the Amazon EC2 instance details page, selecting Security, navigating to Security group details, and choosing the security group ID.
Port
Protocol
File System Protocol
80
TCP
HTTP access for activation
111
TCP, UDP
NFSv3
139
TCP, UDP
SMB
445
TCP
SMB
2049
TCP, UDP
NFS
20048
TCP, UDP
NFSv3
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Configure storage
Default Settings
AMI Root Volume
Volume 2 Cache
Device Name
'/dev/sdb'
Size
80 Gib
165 GiB
Volume Type
gp3
gp3
IOPS
3000
3000
Delete on termination
Yes
Yes
Encrypted
No
No
Throughput
125
125
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