Amazon Glacier | Security

Question 1

Do your prices include taxes?

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Amazon Glacier | Storage

Answer 1

Except as otherwise noted, our prices are exclusive of applicable taxes and duties, including VAT and applicable sales tax. For customers with a Japanese billing address, use of AWS services is subject to Japanese Consumption Tax. Learn more.

Question 2

How do I control access to my data?

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Amazon Glacier | Storage

Answer 2

By default, only you can access your data. In addition, you can control access to your data in Amazon Glacier by using the AWS Identity and Access Management (AWS IAM) service. You simply set up an AWS IAM policy that specifies which users within an account have rights to operations on a given vault.

Question 3

Is my data encrypted?

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Amazon Glacier | Storage

Answer 3

Yes, all data in the service will be encrypted on the server side. Amazon Glacier handles key management and key protection for you. Amazon Glacier uses one of the strongest block ciphers available, 256-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES-256). 256-bit is the largest key size defined for AES. Customers wishing to manage their own keys can encrypt data prior to uploading it.