Cloud Computing: Amazon links mainstay S3 storage to its low-cost Glacier

Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Jack Clark.

As if providing cloud computing, cloud storage and cloud networking wasn’t enough, Amazon Web Services is now giving customers access to low-cost cloud archiving. The company’s mainstay S3 storage service is now linked to the low-cost Glacier data archival service from within the AWS management console, Amazon said on Tuesday. By chaining the two together, Amazon has got rid of many of the steps that companies previously had to take to back up data from S3 into Glacier.

"Amazon S3 was designed for rapid retrieval. Glacier, in contrast, trades off retrieval time for cost, providing storage for as little at $0.01 per Gigabyte per month while retrieving data within three to five hours," Amazon wrote in a blog post…

Data stored in S3 has a durability rating of 99.999999999 percent, as it does in Glacier. These ratings mean that if a company were to store 100 billion objects in either service, they could expect to lose one object each year…

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