# Using the Storage Gateway Hardware Appliance
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**Note**  
End of availability notice: As of May 12, 2025, the AWS Storage Gateway Hardware Appliance will no longer be offered. Existing customers with the AWS Storage Gateway Hardware Appliance can continue to use and receive support until May 2028. As an alternative, you can use the AWS Storage Gateway service to give your applications on-premises and in-cloud access to virtually unlimited cloud storage.

The Storage Gateway Hardware Appliance is a physical hardware appliance with the Storage Gateway software preinstalled on a validated server configuration. You can manage the hardware appliances in your deployment from the **Hardware appliance overview** page in the AWS Storage Gateway console. 

The hardware appliance is a high-performance 1U server that you can deploy in your data center, or on-premises inside your corporate firewall. When you buy and activate your hardware appliance, the activation process associates the hardware appliance with your AWS account. After activation, your hardware appliance appears in the console on the **Hardware appliance overview** page. You can configure the hardware appliance as an S3 File Gateway, FSx File Gateway, Tape Gateway, or Volume Gateway type. The procedure that you use to deploy these gateway types on a hardware appliance is same as on a virtual platform.

For a list of supported AWS Regions where the Storage Gateway Hardware Appliance is available for activation and use, see [Storage Gateway Hardware Appliance Regions](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/sg.html#sg-hardware-appliance) in the *AWS General Reference*.

In the sections that follow, you can find instructions about how to set up, rack mount, power, configure, activate, launch, use, and delete an Storage Gateway Hardware Appliance.

**Topics**
+ [Setting up your Storage Gateway Hardware Appliance](appliance-quick-start.md)
+ [Physically installing your hardware appliance](appliance-rack-mount.md)
+ [Accessing the hardware appliance console](access-hardware-appliance-console.md)
+ [Configuring hardware appliance network parameters](appliance-configure-network.md)
+ [Activating your Storage Gateway Hardware Appliance](appliance-activation.md)
+ [Creating a gateway on your hardware appliance](appliance-launch-gateway.md)
+ [Configuring a gateway IP address on the hardware appliance](appliance-configure-ip.md)
+ [Removing gateway software from your hardware appliance](appliance-remove-gateway.md)
+ [Deleting your Storage Gateway Hardware Appliance](delete-appliance.md)