Amazon S3 Glacier and S3 Glacier Deep Archive are a secure, durable, and extremely low-cost Amazon S3 cloud storage classes for data archiving and long-term backup. They are designed to deliver 99% durability, and provide comprehensive security and compliance capabilities that can help meet even the most stringent regulatory requirements.
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| Online backup service | |
| Available in | English |
|---|---|
| Owner | Amazon.com |
| URL | aws.amazon.com/glacier/ |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Required |
| Launched | August 21, 2012[1] |
| Current status | Active |
Amazon Glacier is an online file storageweb service that provides storage for data archiving and backup.[2]
Glacier is part of the Amazon Web Services suite of cloud computing services, and is designed for long-term storage of data that is infrequently accessed and for which retrieval latency times of 3 to 5 hours are acceptable. Storage costs are a consistent $0.004 per gigabyte per month, which is substantially cheaper than Amazon's own Simple Storage Service (S3).[3]
Amazon hopes this service will move businesses from on-premises tape backup drives to cloud-based backup storage.[4]
Storage[edit]
ZDNet says, that according to private e-mail, Glacier runs on 'inexpensive commodity hardware components'.[4] In 2012, ZDNet quoted a former Amazon employee as saying that Glacier is based on custom low-RPM hard drives attached to custom logic boards where only a percentage of a rack's drives can be spun at full speed at any one time.[5][6] Similar technology is also used by Facebook.[7]
There is some belief among users that the underlying hardware used for Glacier storage is tape-based, owing to the fact that Amazon has positioned Glacier as a direct competitor to tape backup services (both on-premises and cloud-based).[8] This confusion is exacerbated by the fact that Glacier has archive retrieval delays (3–5 hours before archives are available) similar to that of tape-based systems[dubious] and a pricing model that discourages frequent data retrieval.[9]
The Register claimed that Glacier runs on Spectra T-Finity tape libraries with LTO-6 tapes.[10][11] Others have conjectured Amazon using off-line shingled magnetic recording hard drives, multi-layer Blu-rayoptical discs, or an alternative proprietary storage technology.[12]
Data storage consultant Robin Harris speculated that the storage is based on cheap optical disks such as Blu-ray, based on hints from public sources.[13]
Cost[edit]
Glacier has two costs, one for storage and one for retrieval. Uploading data to Glacier is free. Storage pricing is simple: it currently costs 0.4 cents per gigabyte per month, which is 82% cheaper than S3 Standard. When Glacier launched in 2012, the storage charge was set to 1 cent per gigabyte per month. This was reduced to 0.7 cents in September 2015 and to the current 0.4 cents in December 2016.[14]
Glacier used to charge for retrievals based on peak monthly retrieval rate, meaning that (ignoring the free tier) if you downloaded four gigabytes in four hours, it would cost the same as if you downloaded 720 gigabytes in 720 hours, in a 30-day month. This made it cheaper to spread out data retrievals over a long period of time, but failing to do so could result in a surprisingly large bill. In one case, a user stored 15 GB of data in Glacier, retrieved 693 MB for testing, and ended up being charged for 126 GB due to retrieval rate calculation.[15] This pricing policy was widely regarded as a “time bomb” set to go off on retrieval.[16]
In 2016, AWS revised their retrieval pricing model.[17] The new model bases the retrieval fee on the number of gigabytes retrieved. This can amount to a 99% price cut for users who perform only one Glacier retrieval in a month. At the same time, AWS introduced new methods of retrieval that take different amounts of time. An expedited retrieval costs one cent per request and three cents per gigabyte, and can retrieve data in one to five minutes. A standard retrieval costs five cents per thousand requests and one cent per gigabyte, and takes three to five hours. A bulk retrieval costs 2.5 cents per thousand requests and 0.25 cents per gigabyte, and takes seven to twelve hours. AWS also introduced provisioned capacity for expedited retrievals, each unit of which costs $100 per month and guarantees at least three expedited retrievals every five minutes, and up to 150 MB/s of retrieval bandwidth. Without provisioned capacity, expedited retrievals are done on a capacity available basis.[18]
Data deleted from Glacier less than 90 days after being stored incurs a charge equal to the cost of storage for the remainder of the 90 days. (In effect, the user pays for 90 days minimum.) This move was designed to discourage the service's use in cases where Amazon's other storage offerings (e.g. S3) are more appropriate for real-time access. After 90 days, deletion from Glacier is free.
Retrieving data from Glacier is a two-step process. The first step is to retrieve the data into a staging area, where it stays for 24 hours.[19] The second step is to download the data from the staging area, which may incur bandwidth charges.[20]
Glacier is also available as a “storage class” in S3.[21] Objects can only be put into Glacier by lifecycle rules, which can be configured to put the objects in Glacier once they have reached a certain age. Pricing is the same, but there is no staging area; instead, retrieved objects are simultaneously stored in Glacier and in Reduced Redundancy class for a number of days that the user specifies.
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References[edit]
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- ^Jeff Barr (August 21, 2012). 'Amazon Glacier: Archival Storage for One Penny Per GB Per Month'. AWS Blog. Retrieved November 29, 2016.
- ^Mlot, Stephanie (August 21, 2012). 'Amazon Launches Glacier Cloud Storage Service'. PCMag.com. Ziff Davis, Inc. Retrieved August 21, 2012.
- ^'Pricing'. Aws.amazon.com. Retrieved June 18, 2015.
- ^ abClark, Jack (August 21, 2012). 'Amazon launches Glacier cloud storage, hopes enterprise will go cold on tape use'. ZDNet. CBS Interactive. Retrieved August 21, 2012.
- ^Clark, Jack (August 24, 2012). 'Could the tech beneath Amazon's Glacier revolutionise data storage?'. ZDNet. Retrieved June 18, 2015.
- ^'Former S3 employee here. I was on my way out of the company just after the stora... | Hacker News'. News.ycombinator.com. Retrieved June 18, 2015.
- ^Gallagher, Sean (November 9, 2015). 'How Facebook puts petabytes of old cat pix on ice in the name of sustainability'. Ars Technica.
- ^'Amazon Glacier: 99.999999999% durability long-term storage, for a penny a gig'. ExtremeTech. August 21, 2012. Retrieved June 18, 2015.
- ^Paul Cooper (November 9, 2013). 'One of tech's most elusive mysteries: The secret of Amazon Glacier'. IT ProPortal.
- ^'Insider 'fesses up: Amazon's Glacier cloud is made of ... TAPE'. Theregister.co.uk. Retrieved June 18, 2015.
- ^'Spectra: Tape is dead? We installed 550PB of the stuff in 6 months'. Theregister.co.uk. Retrieved June 18, 2015.
- ^'Amazon's Glacier secret: BDXL'. Storagemojo.com. Retrieved June 18, 2015.
- ^Harris, Robin. 'Amazon's Glacier secret: BDXL | StorageMojo'.
- ^'The cloud price war continues: Amazon cuts its cloud storage prices, again'. zdnet.com. Retrieved September 4, 2019.
- ^'FastGlacier surprising Retrieval Fee'. AWS Developer Forums. Aws.amazon.com. September 21, 2012. Retrieved January 30, 2013.
- ^Finley, Klint (August 21, 2012). 'Is There a Landmine Hidden in Amazon's Glacier?' – via www.wired.com.
- ^'AWS Storage Update – S3 & Glacier Price Reductions + Additional Retrieval Options for Glacier'. aws.amazon.com. November 21, 2016. Retrieved February 1, 2018.
- ^'Glacier FAQ: Data Retrievals'. aws.amazon.com. Retrieved February 1, 2018.
- ^'Retrieving Amazon Glacier Archives'. aws.amazon.com. Retrieved February 1, 2018.
- ^'Amazon Glacier Pricing'. aws.amazon.com. Retrieved February 1, 2018.
- ^'Amazon S3 Storage Classes'. aws.amazon.com. Retrieved February 1, 2018.