Category: Storage

Update (October 2019) – The range retrieval function described in this post is part of Amazon S3 Glacier’s InitiateJob function. You cannot use the S3 API to initiate a range retrieval on an object that has the Glacier storage class. Amazon Glacier is designed for storing data that is infrequently accessed. Once you have stored […]

AWS provides you with a number of data storage options. Today I would like to focus on Amazon S3 and Amazon Glacier and a new and powerful way for you to use both of them together. Both of the services offer dependable and highly durable storage for the Internet. Amazon S3 was designed for rapid […]

For today’s episode of The AWS Report, I spoke to Colin Lazier, a Senior Development Manager on the AWS Storage Team. Colin and I talked about Amazon Glacier and how it can be used to archive data for long periods of time. I learned that Glacier uses anti-entropy techniques to guard against data loss. We […]