AWS For Admins For Dummies

Chapter 9

Archiving Data Using Glacier

IN THIS CHAPTER

Defining the Glacier feature set

Creating a migration strategy

Using S3 and Glacier together

Using the AWS Import/Export Service with Glacier

Integrating Glacier with third-party gateways

Archiving data, the act of moving it from expensive high-speed storage to low-cost, low-speed storage, used to be an act akin to moving paper files from an office to the basement. Someone might use those files sometime, in some way, some day, but not today and possibly not ever. Today, however, archives take on added important because the methods available for analyzing data keep improving. Data that may not have held any new secrets yesterday may suddenly hold useful information today, so archiving is no longer the process of potentially putting data away forever — more a means of putting it away for now. Because data now moves between storage types more often, being able to access it simply and somewhat quickly has become more important. In ...