What is Amazon S3 Glacier?
Amazon Glacier is a cloud storage service designed for secure, durable, and low-cost data archiving and long-term backup. It offers 99.999999999 durability and comprehensive security and compliance features to meet rigorous regulatory requirements. The service enables customers to run powerful analytics directly on their archive data at rest through the query-in-place functionality. Storing data with Amazon Glacier can cost as little as $0.004 per gigabyte per month, providing a significant cost savings compared to on-premises solutions. To cater to varying retrieval needs, Amazon Glacier offers three options for accessing archives, ranging from a few minutes to several hours
Highlights
- Secure and durable cloud storage for data archiving and long-term backup
- 99.999999999 durability to protect critical data
- Comprehensive security and compliance capabilities
- Query-in-place functionality for running analytics on archive data
- Extremely low storage costs starting at $0.004 per gigabyte per month
- Flexible retrieval options from a few minutes to several hours