Amazon Glacier | General Flashcards
What is Amazon Glacier?
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Amazon Glacier | Storage
Amazon Glacier is an extremely low-cost storage service that provides secure, durable, and flexible storage for data backup and archival. With Amazon Glacier, customers can reliably store their data for as little as $0.004 per gigabyte per month. Amazon Glacier enables customers to offload the administrative burdens of operating and scaling storage to AWS, so that they don’t have to worry about capacity planning, hardware provisioning, data replication, hardware failure detection and repair, or time-consuming hardware migrations.
How can businesses, government and other organizations benefit from Amazon Glacier?
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Amazon Glacier | Storage
Amazon Glacier enables any business or organization to easily and cost effectively retain data for months, years, or decades. With Amazon Glacier, customers can now cost effectively retain more of their data for future analysis or reference, and they can focus on their business rather than operating and maintaining their storage infrastructure. Customers seeking compliance storage can deploy compliance controls using Vault Lock to meet regulatory and compliance archiving requirements.
How should I choose between Amazon Glacier and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)?
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Amazon Glacier | Storage
Amazon S3 is a durable, secure, simple, and fast storage service designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers. Use Amazon S3 if you need low latency or frequent access to your data. Use Amazon Glacier if low storage cost is paramount, and you do not require millisecond access to your data.
What kind of data can I store?
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Amazon Glacier | Storage
You can store virtually any kind of data in any format. You can also deploy compliance storage controls with Vault Lock to store regulatory and compliance archives in an immutable, Write Once Read Many (WORM) format. Please refer to the Amazon Web Services Licensing Agreement for details.
What does Amazon do with my data in Amazon Glacier?
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Amazon Glacier | Storage
Amazon will store your data and track its associated usage for billing purposes. Amazon will not otherwise access your data for any purpose outside of the Amazon Glacier offering, except if required to do so by law. Please refer to the Amazon Web Services Licensing Agreement for details.
How do I use Amazon Glacier?
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Amazon Glacier | Storage
Amazon Glacier provides a simple, standards-based REST web services interface as well as Java and .NET SDKs. The AWS Management console can be used to quickly set up Amazon Glacier. Data can then be uploaded and retrieved programmatically. View our documentation for more information on the Glacier APIs and SDKs.
