Type of site | Online backup service |
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Available in | English |
Owner | Amazon.com |
URL | aws |
Commercial | Yes |
Registration | Required |
Launched | August 21, 2012[1] |
Current status | Active |
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]