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How can Storage Gateway support a disaster recovery strategy where an on premises application's data can be quickly recovered or accessed directly from AWS during an outage?
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Since Storage Gateway continuously and asynchronously replicates on premises data into durable AWS storage, an organization can use this replicated data as a foundation for disaster recovery, either by launching a new Storage Gateway appliance in AWS itself to continue serving that data during an on premises outage, or by directly accessing the underlying S3 objects or EBS snapshots created from Volume Gateway data, providing a path to recovery that does not depend on the original on premises facility remaining operational.
aws storagegateway create-volume-from-recovery-point --volume-recovery-point-time '2026-09-06T00:00:00Z' --gateway-arn arn:aws:storagegateway:us-east-1:123456789012:gateway/sgw-98765Real-world example A company whose primary data center becomes unavailable due to a natural disaster quickly restores a Volume Gateway's data from its most recent recovery point directly within AWS, allowing critical applications to resume operating from the cloud until the physical facility is restored.