Amazon Glacier | Getting Started

Question 1

How durable is Amazon Glacier?

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Answer 1

Amazon Glacier is designed to provide average annual durability of 99.999999999% for an archive. The service redundantly stores data in multiple facilities and on multiple devices within each facility. To increase durability, Amazon Glacier synchronously stores your data across multiple facilities before returning SUCCESS on uploading archives. Glacier performs regular, systematic data integrity checks and is built to be automatically self-healing.

Question 2

How is data within Amazon Glacier organized?

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Answer 2

You store data in Amazon Glacier as an archive. Each archive is assigned a unique archive ID that can later be used to retrieve the data. An archive can represent a single file or you may choose to combine several files to be uploaded as a single archive. You upload archives into vaults. Vaults are collections of archives that you use to organize your data.

Question 3

How much data can I store?

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Answer 3

There is no maximum limit to the total amount of data that can be stored in Amazon Glacier. Individual archives are limited to a maximum size of 40 terabytes.

Question 4

What is the minimum amount of data that I can store using Amazon Glacier?

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Answer 4

There is no minimum limit to the amount of data that can be stored in Amazon Glacier and individual archives can be from 1 byte to 40 terabytes.