Amazon Web Services

Amazon S3 Glacier

Definition

A low-cost AWS object storage class designed for long-term archiving of rarely accessed data. Retrieval times vary: minutes (Instant), hours (Flexible), or 12 hours (Deep Archive).

Exam context

The low-cost archiving solution on CLF-C02 and SAA-C03. Deep Archive is the cheapest storage class in all of AWS (~$0.00099/GB/month). Question: archive audit logs for 7 years at minimum cost → Glacier Deep Archive.

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