Glacier - Simple, cheap long-term storage, for the data you *probably* don't need.
September 29, 2016
Glacier - Simple, cheap long-term storage, for the data you *probably* don't need.
Score 10 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Amazon Glacier
Glacier is an amazing way to start all the data you rarely need but have to store in case of emergency. It is being used by our technology department and allows us to keep massive amounts of files for very cheap, files we would rarely need but can't throw away.
- Very inexpensive
- Easy to transfer files
- 24/7 availablity
- Low availability
- Only access to files in small timeframes
- Inexpensive storage.
- Ease of mind to know you still have the data somewhere in case you need it.
- Set it and forget it (until you need it).
- Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service), Dropbox, Dropbox for Business, Google Cloud Storage, OneDrive and Box
Since the rest of our infrastructure is in Amazon AWS, coding for sending data to Glacier just makes sense. The others are great as well, for their specific needs and uses, but having *another* third-party software to manage, be billed for, and learn/utilize can be costly in money and time.