Cloud Storage Gateway:What is CSG on CloudBox?

Benefits

CloudBox is a fully managed cloud service provided by Alibaba Cloud. The hardware and software of Alibaba Cloud public cloud are integrated into your data center to meet specific requirements, such as data security, local data processing, and low latency. You can have the same user experience that you have on the public cloud in your data center. You can use CloudBox out of the box. This helps you better focus on business logic and reduce the O&M workloads on hardware and the cloud platform. For more information about CloudBox, see What is CloudBox?

Compared with Alibaba Cloud public cloud, CloudBox provides advantages, such as data security, local data processing, and low latency.

• Data security: Data is stored in data centers under your control, which meets the regulatory requirements for locally storing data.

• Local data processing: You do not need to upload data to Alibaba Cloud public cloud, which reduces the cost of uploading large amounts of data to Alibaba Cloud public cloud.

• Low latency: Your CloudBox is geographically close to your local devices and can interact with local devices and applications in near real time.

• Exclusive resources: You do not need to share storage with other customers in the Alibaba Cloud public cloud. In this case, you can store sensitive data with ease.

Billing

For more information about the billing of CSG on CloudBox, see Gateways on CloudBox.

Limits

• CSG on CloudBox supports only standard gateways.

• CSG on CloudBox supports only file gateways. CSG on CloudBox does not support Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) gateways.

• CSG on CloudBox does not allow you to associate a gateway with a bucket on Alibaba Cloud public cloud that resides in a region different from the region of CloudBox.

• CSG on CloudBox does not support express synchronization.