Glacier Insights

What is Glacier?

Amazon Glacier (now Amazon S3 Glacier) is a low-cost cloud storage service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) for data archiving and long-term backup. It's designed for infrequently accessed data where retrieval times of several hours are acceptable. Common uses include storing backups, logs, and other data that needs to be retained but isn't frequently accessed.

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What other technologies are related to Glacier?

Glacier Competitor Technologies

Snowball

Snowball is a data transport solution, used to transfer large amounts of data into and out of AWS. While Glacier is for archival storage, Snowball can be used as an alternative to uploading large datasets to Glacier over the network.

mentioned alongside Glacier in 62% (152) of relevant job posts

Glacier Complementary Technologies

Storage Gateway

Storage Gateway can be used to tier data to Glacier for long-term archival. It provides a seamless way to move data from on-premises storage to Glacier.

mentioned alongside Glacier in 35% (236) of relevant job posts

AWS Storage Gateway

AWS Storage Gateway can be used to tier data to Glacier for long-term archival. It provides a seamless way to move data from on-premises storage to Glacier.

mentioned alongside Glacier in 42% (79) of relevant job posts

DataSync

DataSync can be used to efficiently transfer data to Glacier for archiving purposes. It simplifies and accelerates the process of moving large datasets into Glacier.

mentioned alongside Glacier in 21% (126) of relevant job posts