The latest article on ‘The Forrester Blog’ is titled “Amazon Glacier Bids To Solve The 100 Year Archive Problem”.

Andrew Reichman says, “This week, Amazon announced a new storage offering within Amazon Web Services (AWS) called Glacier.  Aptly named, it’s intended to be vast and slow moving, with a cheap price tag to match.  At a fraction of the cost of the storage intended for online storage offerings EBS and S3, Glacier will cost you $.01 per GB per month, compared to around $.05- $.13 per GB per month for higher performance offerings depending on capacity stored.  Restores from Glacier are costly by design; this is intended for data that you’re not likely to access frequently.  If used for the right types of data, this will be a low cost way to park stale data for long periods of time”.

Amazon Glacier Bids To Solve The 100 Year Archive Problem

The Forrester Blog

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