This Guidance demonstrates how you can replace your on-premises Microsoft Windows file storage using AWS. If you maintain on-premises file storage because of latency or bandwidth requirements, you can instead use Amazon FSx File Gateway for seamless access to fully managed, highly reliable, and virtually unlimited Microsoft Windows files, provided by Amazon FSx for Windows File Server. Amazon FSx File Gateway is a new file gateway type that provides low latency and efficient access to Amazon FSx from your on-premises facility that hosts Windows file shares. It helps eliminate on-premises file servers and consolidates all the data into AWS to take advantage of the scale and economics of cloud storage. It also provides options that you can use for all your file workloads, including those that require on-premises access to cloud data. Applications that need to stay on premises can now experience the same low latency and high performance that they have in AWS, without taxing your networks or impacting the latencies experienced by your most demanding applications.