>>Welcome back to the cubes coverage of AWS storage. They were here in downtown Seattle, crisp downtown Seattle. Winter is coming we're to talk about the snow unintended 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 node. If you think about it, Mark Curry is here as the general manager of AWS gateway and Sid Roy is the GM 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 it. We call it gateway is the first one being volume gateway. And what volume gateway does is give you a way to connect your block storage on prem with the cloud for file shares for backup is what popular application there. And, uh, for applications that can tolerate some latency and that's a traditional service, then we, uh, 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 that have been around for 50 years, that you have to have trucks pick up and go store in a mountain and all that, um, with the virtual tape gateway, what we can do is we all have 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 dry. 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 we've got some great customers there. One would be formula one. Um, they've used virtual tape library. Our gateway to, um, basically could reduce the recovery time from five days down to one. So big impact there. Uh, the next gateway is our file gateway. And what I felt gateway does, again, sits on-prem either the software package or as a hardware appliance and fell gateway exposed as both an SMB share for Microsoft traffic and then an NFS share for your NFS traffic. And basically what we do as 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, uh, where you've got durable storage. >>It's, you know, it's over multiple regions. You can run all of our analytics on that, on that data as well. Um, a good example, there would be modernize. A company worked 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 week, you know, we've got a really robust set of tools, allow 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. So we offer FSX as a windows file system or file share in the cloud. Um, the, 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. Lots of ways to get data to the cloud compatibility >>Issues. So, excellent. Thank you for that. Mark said, >>We know about snowball snowcones snowmobile all the snows, where does that fit >>In? Yeah. So let me, 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 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. Uh, so let me start with the stone device. We announced last year in 2020, uh, snow cone is a small, uh, tissue box sized device. You know, it, it, it is portable. It's highly mobile, portable, rugged. It can, it can capture data from rugged sensory and 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 at VWs. >>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 now that can be single known 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 snowcones, for example, we are partnering with Facebook to deliver, uh, private, LTE based, uh, networks for, uh, remote and rural areas where the connectivity is not here there. Right? So, so, uh, 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, we, us air force recently demonstrated, uh, that ABM a system, which is the advanced battle management system, where they can do like a lot of data capture and local simulation with AI and ML on containers, right on the snow cone, uh, on the snowball edge devices. So those are two examples of how we're doing, uh, 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 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, uh, you know, cause the future we think anyway is AI and for instance, where the data lives, right. And yet, like you said, if you want to bring it back and bring it back and we have ways to get it back. Right, exactly. I'll give you guys the last word. >>Well, I, I would just say, you know, our FSX gateways of relatively new announcement, it's got some really cool applications for, um, high-performance Microsoft applications, but also for remote offices that want to share files. >>Great. Well guys, mark said, thanks so much for coming on the cube. Thank you for sharing the insights and the data and really appreciate it. Okay. Thank you for watching. This is the cubes coverage of AWS storage day. Keep it right there.