Amazon S3 Glacier

Amazon S3 Glacier
Type of site
Online backup service
Available inEnglish
OwnerAmazon.com
URLaws.amazon.com/glacier/
CommercialYes
RegistrationRequired
LaunchedAugust 21, 2012[1]
Current statusActive

Amazon S3 Glacier is an online file storage web service that provides storage for data archiving and backup.[2]

Glacier is part of the Amazon Web Services suite of cloud computing services, and is designed for long-term storage of data that is infrequently accessed and for which retrieval latency times of 3 to 5 hours are acceptable. Storage costs are a consistent $0.004 per gigabyte per month, which is substantially cheaper than the Simple Storage Service (S3) Standard tier.[3]

Amazon hopes this service will move businesses from on-premises tape backup drives to cloud-based backup storage.[4]

  1. ^ Jeff Barr (August 21, 2012). "Amazon Glacier: Archival Storage for One Penny Per GB Per Month". AWS Blog. Retrieved November 29, 2016.
  2. ^ Mlot, Stephanie (August 21, 2012). "Amazon Launches Glacier Cloud Storage Service". PCMag.com. Ziff Davis, Inc. Retrieved August 21, 2012.
  3. ^ "Pricing". Aws.amazon.com. Retrieved June 18, 2015.
  4. ^ Clark, Jack (August 21, 2012). "Amazon launches Glacier cloud storage, hopes enterprise will go cold on tape use". ZDNet. CBS Interactive. Retrieved August 21, 2012.