Introduction to Amazon AWS Glacier in 10 minutes!!

Amazon Glacier is a secure, durable, and extremely low-cost cloud storage service for data archiving and long-term backup. It is designed to deliver 99.999999999% durability, and provides comprehensive security and compliance capabilities that can help meet even the most stringent regulatory requirements. Amazon Glacier provides query-in-place functionality, allowing you to run powerful analytics directly on your archive data at rest. Customers can store data for as little as $0.004 per gigabyte per month, a significant savings compared to on-premises solutions. To keep costs low yet suitable for varying retrieval needs, Amazon Glacier provides three options for access to archives, from a few minutes to several hours.

Benefits RETRIEVALS AS QUICK AS 1-5 MINUTES Amazon Glacier provides three retrieval options to fit your use case. Expedited retrievals typically return data in 1-5 minutes, and are great for Active Archive use cases. Standard retrievals typically complete between 3-5 hours work, and work well for less time-sensitive needs like backup data, media editing, or long-term analytics. Bulk retrievals are the lowest-cost retrieval option, returning large amounts of data within 5-12 hours.

UNMATCHED DURABILITY & SCALABILITY Amazon Glacier runs on the world’s largest global cloud infrastructure, and was designed for 99.999999999% of durability. Data is automatically distributed across a minimum of three physical Availability Zones that are geographically separated within an AWS Region, and Amazon Glacier can also automatically replicate data to any other AWS Region. 

MOST COMPREHENSIVE SECURITY & COMPLIANCE CAPABILITIES Amazon Glacier offers sophisticated integration with AWS CloudTrail to log, monitor and retain storage API call activities for auditing, and supports three different forms of encryption. Amazon Glacier also supports security standards and compliance certifications including SEC Rule 17a-4, PCI-DSS, HIPAA/HITECH, FedRAMP, EU GDPR, and FISMA, and Amazon Glacier Vault Lock enables WORM storage capabilities, helping satisfy compliance requirements for virtually every regulatory agency around the globe.

LOW COST Amazon Glacier is designed to be the lowest cost AWS object storage class, allowing you to archive large amounts of data at a very low cost. This makes it feasible to retain all the data you want for use cases like data lakes, analytics, IoT, machine learning, compliance, and media asset archiving. You pay only for what you need, with no minimum commitments or up-front fees.

MOST SUPPORTED PLATFORM WITH THE LARGEST ECOSYSTEM In addition to integration with most AWS services, the Amazon object storage ecosystem includes tens of thousands of consulting, systems integrator and independent software vendor partners, with mo ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qBvEi3F5Is