Amazon Web Service Storage Gateway now supports Microsoft Hyper-V: Stakes and Opportunities.

Henceforth official, this announcement means that, you (AWS Storage Gateway) can now use the Storage Gateway on-premises in: Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware ESXi. So you can also run the Storage Gateway on Amazon EC2. This allows you to mirror your on-premises environment in the AWS cloud for on-demand computing and disaster recovery (DR).

For those who unfamiliar, the AWS Storage Gateway combines a software appliance (a virtual machine image that installs in your on-premises IT environment) and Amazon S3 storage. You can use the Storage Gateway to support several different file sharing, backup, and disaster recovery use cases. This means in clear that , you can use the Storage Gateway to host your company's home directory files in Amazon S3 while keeping copies of recently accessed files on-premises for fast access.

The AWS Storage Gateway User Guide will give you all of the information that you need to get started.