- Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is an object storage service that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance.
- Customers of all sizes and industries can use Amazon S3 to store and protect data for various use cases, such as data lakes, websites, mobile applications, backup and restore, archive, enterprise applications, IoT devices, and big data analytics.
- Amazon S3 provides management features to optimize, organize, and configure access to your data to meet your specific business, organizational, and compliance requirements.
- Use Amazon S3 Glacier to provide durable and highly low-cost storage for infrequently used data with security features for data archiving and backup.
- S3 Glacier helps you offload the administrative burdens of operating and scaling storage to AWS.
- You don't have to worry about capacity planning, hardware provisioning, data replication, hardware failure detection and recovery, or time-consuming hardware migrations.
- Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) also provides three Amazon S3 Glacier archive storage classes.
- These storage classes are designed for different access patterns and storage duration.
- These storage classes differ as follows:
- S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval: Use for archiving data that is rarely accessed and requires milliseconds retrieval.
- S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval (formerly the S3 Glacier storage class): Use for archives where portions of the data might need to be retrieved in minutes.
- Data stored in the S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval storage class can be accessed in as little as 1-5 minutes using Expedited retrieval.
- You can also request free Bulk retrievals in up to 5-12 hours.
- S3 Glacier Deep Archive: Use for archiving data that rarely need access.
- Data stored in the S3 Glacier Deep Archive storage class has a default retrieval time of 12 hours.