Amazon S3 Glacier
Long-term, secure, durable storage classes for data archiving at the lowest cost and milliseconds accessWhat is Amazon S3 Glacier?
✔ The Amazon S3 Glacier storage classes are purpose-built for data archiving, providing you with the highest performance, most retrieval flexibility, and the lowest cost archive storage in the cloud.
✔ Choose from three archive storage classes optimized for different access patterns and storage duration.
✔ The S3 Glacier storage classes provide virtually unlimited scalability and are designed for 99.999999999% (11 nines) of data durability.
Benefits
Retrievals as Quick as Milliseconds
The S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval storage class delivers milliseconds retrieval for archives that need immediate access, such as medical images or news media assets.
Unmatched Durability and Scalability
Storage classes run on the world’s largest global cloud infrastructure with virtually unlimited scalability and are designed for durability.
Data Archiving at the Lowest Cost
Storage classes are designed to be the lowest-cost storage for specific access patterns. You pay only for what you need, with no minimum commitments or upfront fees.
Most Comprehensive Security and Compliance
The S3 Glacier storage classes offer sophisticated integration with AWS CloudTrail to log, monitor, and retain storage API call activities for auditing, and they support three different forms of encryption.
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Learn More About Amazon S3 Glacier
Browse through our collection of videos, tutorials, and customer stories to learn more about Amazon S3 Glacier
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Modernize your data archive with Amazon S3 (46:30)
Amazon S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval Overview (4:20)
Put your cold data to work for AI/ML workloads with Amazon S3 Glacier (16:59)
Preserving and maximizing the value of digital media assets using S3 (59:21)
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Hands-on Tutorials
Start with these free and simple tutorials to explore Amazon S3
Getting started using the Amazon S3 Glacier Storage Classes
In this tutorial, you will learn how easy it is to begin storing your archive datasets at low cost with the Amazon S3 Glacier storage classes.
Store and Retrieve a File with Amazon S3
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create an Amazon S3 bucket, upload a file, retrieve the file and delete the file.
Hosting a Static Website Using Amazon S3
In this tutorial, you will learn how to host a static website. We provide instructions and step-by-step walkthroughs on eight topics.
Batch Upload Files to the Cloud
In this tutorial we will help you use the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) to access Amazon S3. You can easily build your own scripts for backing up your files to the cloud and easily retrieve them as needed.
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Customer Stories
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Customer Stories
Start with these customer stories to learn more about Amazon S3 Glacier. Click here to discover more.
Snap Inc. (Snap) builds the popular visual messaging app Snapchat, which enhances relationships with friends, family, and the world. More than 363 million daily active users use Snapchat to share and save photos and videos.
“The fact that no customer noticed this major migration to Amazon S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval was a big win for us. It was a seamless experience for end users, and we had no production issues during the entire migration."
Vijay Manoharan, Manager of the Media Delivery Platform Team, Snap
The Nasdaq Stock Exchange is the largest equities franchise globally by volume, and it manages the matching of buyers and sellers at high volume and velocity. Nasdaq relies on an internal application to capture and store all protected exchange data.
“We were able to easily support the jump from 30 billion records to 70 billion records a day because of the flexibility and scalability of Amazon S3 and Amazon Redshift.”
Robert Hunt, Vice President of Software Engineering, Nasdaq
CNN pioneered the the concept of running breaking news in the 24-hour news cycle and are archiving data in AWS to support daily news production. CNN shares their media archive modernization journey from on-premises systems to the cloud and provides insights on how organizations can maximize the value of archival data in AWS to unlock business value.
“We are now archiving exclusively to the cloud. We've migrated 90% our 26 petabytes to the cloud and are meeting our SLA with S3 and Glacier."
Jay Brown, Director of Tech Software & Systems Architecture, CNN
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