I can't say it any better than the previous poster. Simply add that retrieval from Glacier is straightforward but annoying. You also need to be ok with day-plus turnaround for very large retrievals.
On Fri, Feb 15, 2019, 3:53 AM Curt <cu...@free.fr wrote: > On 2019-02-15, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming <tdteoenm...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > Basically personal data. I don't intend to access the data in the > > Cloud often. Just want to park it permanently in the Cloud. Maybe I > > can access the Cloud from anywhere in the world? > > > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Glacier > > > 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. > > In 2016, AWS revised their retrieval pricing model.[16] 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. > > Happy storage. > >
