Managing local disks for your Storage Gateway - AWS Storage Gateway
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Managing local disks for your Storage Gateway

The gateway virtual machine (VM) uses the local disks that you allocate on-premises for buffering and storage. Gateways created on Amazon EC2 instances use Amazon EBS volumes as local disks.