Create EC2 for Storage Gateway

Create EC2 for Storage Gateway

1. Access the Storage Gateway service management console.

   

   • Click Create gateway.

   

   • Name it filesgw

   

2. Scroll down to the Platform options section, Select Amazon EC2.

   • Click Customize your settings.
   • Select Launch instance.

   

3. AWS will automatically select the AMI for initialization.

   

4. Scroll down to the Instance type section, Select m5.large.

   AWS recommends using m4/m5 types for general purpose usage.

5. Scroll down to the Key pair section, Select Create new key pair.

   

   • Name the Key pair name as storagegw-key
   • Click RSA for Key pair type
   • Click .pem for Key pair file format
   • Select Create key pair

   

   • Then select storagegw-key in the Key pair name -required field

6. Scroll down to the Network settings section, Select Edit.

   

7. Scroll down to the Firewall (security groups) section.

   • In the Security group name field, enter storagegw-instance-sg.
   • In the Description field, enter storagegw-instance-sg.

8. Scroll down to the Inbound security groups rules section.

   • Click Add security group rule to add a rule.
   • Add 14 rules as shown in the images

   

   

   

   

   

9. Scroll down to the Configure storage section.

   • Click Add new volume.
   • In the capacity field, enter 150.

     In addition to the Root volume, we need to add another volume to configure Cache for Storage Gateway with a minimum capacity of 150GB.

10. Click Launch instance.

11. Confirm that the instance has been created successfully.