Amazon Glacier
Amazon Glacier is a highly durable, extremely low-cost storage service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) designed for data archiving and long-term backup. It offers secure, scalable, and cost-effective storage for data that is infrequently accessed, allowing users to offload the operational…
Key facts
- First appeared
- 2012
- Category
- technology
- Problem solved
- Amazon Glacier was created to solve the challenge of prohibitively high costs and operational complexities associated with long-term, infrequently accessed data storage. Before Glacier, organizations relied on expensive on-premise solutions like tape libraries or costly spinning disk arrays for archival purposes, which required significant capital expenditure, ongoing maintenance, physical security, and complex data retrieval processes.
- Platforms
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud
Related technologies
Notable users
- Government Agencies
- Netflix
- Major Media & Entertainment Companies
- Thomson Reuters
- Financial Institutions
- Healthcare Providers