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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…

When used with a few software and hardware tools, Glacier makes an excellent long-term cloud archive service

8 out of 10

July 07, 2019

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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 …

Glacier- inaccessible storage

8 out of 10

April 05, 2019

Incentivized

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 …

The only Glacier that will still exist in 10 years

8 out of 10

January 17, 2019

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My organization is required to retain application audit logs for several years. The engineering team at my organization uses Amazon …

Hedge Fund Employee's Amazon Glacier Review

10 out of 10

March 27, 2017

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We've only recently begun to use Amazon Glacier for larger parts of the company, but we've been using Amazon Glacier for portions of our …

Glacier - Simple, cheap long-term storage, for the data you probably don't need.

10 out of 10

September 29, 2016

Incentivized

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 …

Great service for companies already using S3 and other AWS services

8 out of 10

September 28, 2016

Incentivized

It's being used to archive infrastructure and application logs. These are being being pushed into Glacier by lifecycle policies on S3 …

Great service for cold data storage - unless you want to retrieve or modify it!

7 out of 10

April 22, 2016

Incentivized

We used Amazon Glacier to store backups of virtual machine images. A virtual machine image may take gigabytes and, considering that we …

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Pricing

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Bulk Retrieval Pricing

$0.0025

Cloud

Per GB Per Month

Storage Pricing

$0.004

Cloud

Per GB Per Month

Retrieval Pricing

$0.01

Cloud

Per GB Per Month

Entry-level set up fee?

No setup fee

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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.