![]() If you ever need to retrieve your data, you request it by archive. These can be a single file, or you can zip multiple files and folders into a single archive, which can be as large as 40TB. Amazon calls all the stuff in your Glacier vaults “archives”. Your files and folders are stored in Amazon Glacier containers called “vaults”. So this isn’t for backing up and quickly retrieving a file you accidentally deleted and need right away. The most important thing to know about Amazon Glacier is that if you want to retrieve files, it takes 3 to 5 hours to complete. You’re not supposed to use it to regularly retrieve files or constantly delete them off the servers, and if you do it’ll cost you. ![]() ![]() Why does it cost so little? Amazon’s designed Glacier to be optimised for data you don’t access often - think long-term storage of photos and videos, archived project files, etc. ![]() It’s like Amazon’s other inexpensive storage service, S3 - only about 10 times cheaper. Amazon Glacier is a low-cost, online storage service where you pay every month only for what you use (online storage space plus data transfers). ![]()
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