Glacier Service Flashcards
What is Glacier Service for
Inexpensive
Very slow
Seldom reads
Good for backups
How S3 integrates with Glacier?
S3 can archive objects to Glacier
How to read faster?
Pay extra. (Still slow) Do not say it on exam.
How Virtual Tape Library service integrate with it
Uses it to back up data
What Glacier Vault is analogues to in S3 service?
S3 Bucket
What Glacier Archive is analogues to in S3 service?
S3 Object
What is maximum size of Glacier Archive
40 TB
What is data consistency for Glacier Archive update operation?
It is immutable.
Can’t be changed.
No updates allowed
What is Glacier Vault policies
It is DIFFERENT from access policies.
IAM agnostic set of rules vault goes by.
“Nobody can delete from the vault”
“MFA is required to delete from the vault
IAM Access rules to Glacier Vault
IAM Roles that define access to the Glacier Vault
What is Glacier Vault lock
Seems like it is set of Glacier Vault policies.
Immutable (can be deleted, overridden but not modified)
What is a flow for Glacier Vault Lock creation?
Create the Vault Lock
Complete the Vault Lock or Abort Vault lock
What is timeout to complete the Vault Lock
24 hours
What happens if the Vault Lock is not completed with in given timeout?
It dissolves and never gets an effect
