Introducing Amazon Glacier

    Tuesday, August 21, 2012

    Amazon Web Services (AWS) introduced a new feature today that takes aim at backup solutions and other types of cold storage.   With Amazon Glacier, you can store data at costs as low as $0.01 per gigabyte per month ($0.011 to store in California/Ireland and $0.012 to store in Tokyo).  You can store a little or you can store tons since you only pay for what you use – no capacity planning needed here.  On the backend, Glacier will perform integrity checks of your data and the service is said to provide an average annual durability of 99.999999999% (that’s nine 9’s).  

    posted by Michael Kang
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