- it doesn't provide you instant access to your data.
- Vaults are regional. (Asked for region during creation)
- data is stored as an archive and these archives can be any object similar to S3.
- You can have unlimited archives within your Glacier vaults
- The Glacier dashboard within AWS management console allows you to:
- Create your vaults,
- set data retrieval policies,
- Set event notifications.
- When it comes to moving data into S3 Glacier for the first time it's effectively a two-step process:
- Firstly, you need to create your vaults as your container for your archives and this could be completed using the Glacier console.
- Secondly, you need to move your data into the Glacier vault using the available API or SDKs or use the S3 lifecycle rules
- Data is retrieved using either the APIs, SDKs or the AWS CLI.
- You must first create an archival retrieval job, then request access to all or part of that archive.
- This is the default Standard storage class within S3 Glacier
- offering a highly secure using in transit and at rest encryption low-cost and durable storage solution.
- The durability: 11, 9s across multiple availability zones,
- Availability of S3 Glacier is 99.9%.
- Uses API to lifecycle rules to add data.
- Used when you have an urgent requirement to retrieve your data
- Request must be less than 250 megabytes.
- Data is made available in 1-5 minutes
- Most expensive retrieval option of the three.
¶ Standard.
- Can be used to retrieve any of your archives no matter their size
- Data will be available in 3-5 hours,
- Second most expensive of the three options.
- Used to retrieve petabytes of data at a time
- Takes between 5-12 hours to complete.
- Cheapest of the retrieval options.
- Glacier Deep Archive is the cheapest offering
- Ideal storage class for circumstances that require specific data retention regulations and compliance with minimal access (Financial or health sectors where data records might need to be legally retained for seven years or even longer.)
- Durability: 11 9's across multiple AZs
- Availability: 99.9%
- Adding data into deep archive:
- S3 put APIs
- S3 lifecycle rules.
- Retrieval options: 12 hours or less