When used with a few software and hardware tools, Glacier makes an excellent long-term cloud archive service
Amazon Glacier is in use by several of my clients for long-term, "low-touch" storage of archival data. The main use is by media …
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What is Amazon S3 Glacier?
The Amazon S3 Glacier storage classes are purpose-built for data archiving, providing a low cost archive storage in the cloud. According to AWS, S3 Glacier storage classes provide virtually unlimited scalability and are designed for 99.999999999% (11 nines) of data…
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What is Amazon S3 Glacier?
The Amazon S3 Glacier storage classes are purpose-built for data archiving, providing a low cost archive storage in the cloud. According to AWS, S3 Glacier storage classes provide virtually unlimited scalability and are designed for 99.999999999% (11 nines) of data durability, and they provide fast access to archive data and low cost.
The user chooses from three archive storage classes optimized for different access patterns and storage duration. For archive data that needs immediate access, such as medical images, news media assets, or genomics data, can use the S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval storage class, an archive storage class that delivers a low cost storage with milliseconds retrieval. For archive data that does not require immediate access but needs the flexibility to retrieve large sets of data at no cost, such as backup or disaster recovery use cases, choose S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval (formerly S3 Glacier), with retrieval in minutes or free bulk retrievals in 5-12 hours. To save more on long-lived archive storage such as compliance archives and digital media preservation, S3 Glacier Deep Archive presents an option.
Amazon S3 Glacier Technical Details
| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
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July 07, 2019
When used with a few software and hardware tools, Glacier makes an excellent long-term cloud archive service
- Slight negative - another backup cost in addition to their existing BCDR solutions.
- Positive - the overall cost is low, and for nonprofit customers, AWS offers an annual credit through TechSoup that can offset a lot of the cost.
- Positive - staff no longer needs to shuttle large, heavy external storage devices offsite as an offsite backup.
April 05, 2019
Glacier- inaccessible storage
- Allowed us to meet compliance standards as cheaply as possible.
- We can store more legacy data for the same budget now, giving our teams more resources to use in case they need them.
January 17, 2019
The only Glacier that will still exist in 10 years
- We seldom need to access our data in Glacier; this means that it is a fraction of the cost of S3, including the infrequent-access storage class.
- Transitioning data to Glacier is managed by AWS. We don't need our engineers to build or maintain log pipelines.
- Configuring lifecycle policies for S3 and Glacier is simple; it takes our engineers very little time, and there is little risk of errant configuration.
March 27, 2017
Hedge Fund Employee's Amazon Glacier Review
- Very good ROI, we can store huge amounts of data for minimal cost
- Allows our employees globally to access data
September 29, 2016
Glacier - Simple, cheap long-term storage, for the data you *probably* don't need.
- 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).
September 28, 2016
Great service for companies already using S3 and other AWS services
- Helped us meet compliance requirements while minimizing costs.
- Simple integration with almost no changes required to our existing S3 management policies.
- Cheap backup storage - up to the level where it becomes only tiny fractions of your entire project, whereas other solutions would be much more expensive.
- The established reliability of AWS also makes you sleep better at night knowing your data is going to be OK.