S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval: Balancing Cost and Retrieval Flexibility for Archiving
It provides low-cost storage compared to S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval. It is a suitable solution for backing up the data so that it can be recovered easily a few times in a year. It just takes minutes to access the data.
Characteristics of S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval
- Free recoveries in high quantity.
- AZs destruction can lead to difficulty in accessing data.
- when you have to retrieve large data sets , then S3 glacier flexible retrieval is best for backup and disaster recovery use cases.
- Availability is 99.99% in S3 glacier flexible retrieval.
- Durability is of 99.999999999%.
Amazon S3 – Storage Classes
Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) is used for storing data in the form of objects S3 is quite different from any other file storage device or service. Amazon S3 also provides industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance. The data which is uploaded by the user in S3, that data is stored as objects and provided an ID. Moreover, they store in shapes like buckets and can upload a maximum file size of 5 terabytes (TB). This service is basically designed for the online backup and archiving of data and applications on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
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