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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April 05, 2019
Glacier- inaccessible storage
We used it for long term storage solutions at a low cost. Generally, it's a backup solution for when we have legacy systems that are getting replaced by a newer application. We will throw all the associated data/files/information on the legacy application onto Glacier to be pulled out if we ever need to revamp it or reference the application for any reason.
- Low cost, long term storage is the marketed strength of Glacier and something that it does very well
- Great for storing data needed for compliance purposes without breaking the bank
- Storing data that you don't need but want to ensure is there if you ever do need it. I feel very safe putting data in Glacier given its (up to) 11 9's redundancy
- Having the option to pay to get the data back faster would be much appreciated, but given the price and the disclaimers given before storing this is an understandable inconvenience
- Setup can be a bit difficult in certain implementations as it requires a 3rd party client to transfer data into
- Support and download costs were higher than expected
- 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.
- Google Cloud Storage and Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service)
Glacier is convenient with systems already on AWS and cheaper than S3 for data that needs to be accessed infrequently. A great tool for any team to use that has a legacy system or data.
September 29, 2016
Glacier - Simple, cheap long-term storage, for the data you *probably* don't need.
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.