Benefits of Amazon Glacier
- Lower Cost: Glacier is intended to be Amazon’s most affordable storage class. When compared to other Amazon storage service, this allows an organization to store large amounts of data at a lower cost.
- Upholds archive database: It is not mandatory for an organization to keep up its own archival database. Administrative duties including hardware and capacity planning are handled by AWS.
- Durability: Glacier can restore data more easily in the event that it is lost in one of the three actual AWS Availability Zones where it is distributed at any one time.
- Scalability: Businesses are able to adjust the amount of data they store as needed. Businesses have a choice between bulk, standard, and expedited retrievals.
What is Amazon Glacier?
AWS offers a wide range of storage services that can be provisioned depending on your project requirements and use case. AWS storage services have different provisions for highly confidential data, frequently accessed data, and not-so-frequently accessed data. You can choose from various storage types namely, object storage, file storage, block storage services, backups, and data migration options. All of which fall under the AWS Storage Services list.
AWS Glacier: From the aforementioned list, AWS Glacier, is the backup and archival storage provided by AWS. It is an extremely low-cost, long-term, durable, secure storage service that is ideal for backups and archival needs. In a lot of its operations AWS Glacier is similar to S3, and, it interacts directly with S3, using S3-lifecycle policies. However, the main difference between AWS S3 and Glacier is the cost structure. The cost of storing the same amount of data in AWS Glacier is significantly less as compared to S3. Storage costs in Glacier can be as little as $1 for one petabyte of data per month.
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