On March 27, Seattle, WA-based Amazon
Web Services announced the general availability of Amazon S3 Glacier Deep
Archive, a new Amazon S3 storage class providing secure and durable object
storage for long-term retention of data that is accessed rarely in a year. S3
Glacier Deep Archive offers the lowest cost storage in the cloud, at prices
lower than storing and maintaining data in on-premises magnetic tape libraries
or archiving data offsite.
All objects stored
in the S3 Glacier Deep Archive storage class are replicated and stored across
at least three geographically-dispersed Availability Zones, protected by
99.999999999% durability, and can be restored within 12 hours or less. S3
Glacier Deep Archive also offers a bulk retrieval option, where you can
retrieve petabytes of data within 48 hours.
S3 Glacier Deep Archive expands AWS’ data archiving offerings, enabling users to select the optimal storage class based on storage and retrieval costs, and retrieval times. S3 Glacier Deep Archive is easy to use and requires minor configuration changes if users are already familiar with and using the S3 Glacier storage class. S3 Glacier Deep Archive is fully integrated with S3 features including S3 Storage Class Analysis, S3 Object Tagging, S3 Lifecycle policies, S3 Object Lock, Cross-Region Replication, and server-side encryption, including customer-managed keys, the company said.
The Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive storage class is now generally available in all commercial AWS Regions and AWS GovCloud (US).
Source: AWS
By Loren Blinde
March 29, 2019
