Category: Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive

If you work with data storage and data protection, then you’re aware of the “3-2-1 rule.” System administrators consider the 3-2-1 rule a best practice for backup and disaster recovery (DR), and it is recommended by US-CERT. The 3-2-1 rule states that you should have three copies of your data (your production data and two […]

Editor’s note: AWS is not responsible for UCI’s public GitHub repo linked in this post, which has been provided so that interested parties can explore the solution described in this post in more detail. The University of California, Irvine (UCI) is a public land-grant research university with troves of research data stored on servers in […]

According to a study by the International Data Corporation (IDC), the global datasphere is expected to grow from 33 zettabytes (ZB) in 2018 to 175 ZB by 2025, a staggering five-fold increase. Organizations that leverage distributed architectures generate a significant portion of their data footprint from observability data, including application logs, metrics, and traces, which […]

Update (5/29/2025): On May 29, 2025, AWS DataSync launched Enhanced mode support for cross-cloud transfers. Enhanced mode simplifies data transfers between AWS and other clouds by removing the need for a DataSync agent. It also provides higher performance and scalability when compared to Basic mode. For more details, see the What’s New announcement or review the documentation for guidance […]

Faced with increasing amounts of data and a tightening economic climate, enterprises are looking to save money on their storage costs by moving rarely needed data to archival storage options. The least costly options require your internal systems to support receiving data back in hours or days, often called asynchronous retrievals. With this time delay, […]

Update (02/13/2024): Consider Amazon S3 Lifecycle transition fees that are charged based on the total number of objects being transitioned, the destination storage class (listed on the Amazon S3 pricing page), as well as the additional metadata charges applied. You can use the S3 pricing calculator to estimate the total upfront and monthly costs by […]

Data is the lifeblood of any modern business. Organizations are storing more copies of their application data than ever before to recover from data loss, repair data corruption or ransomware damage, respond to compliance requests, and become more data driven. Storing more data at reduced cost enables businesses to extract more value and insights to […]

Satellite imagery often comes as large, high-resolution files, and organizations that work with this data typically have high storage costs. Additionally, large imagery files can take time and resources when downloaded for use with machine learning (ML), data analytics tools, or manual analyst review. Using standard compression techniques lets us achieve reductions in file size […]

Update (7/26/2024): You no longer need to optimize the S3 Inventory report using Amazon Athena. Amazon S3 will automatically optimize your S3 Batch Operations restore job to achieve the fastest retrieval throughput. For more guidance on using batch operations, learn more in the S3 User Guide. Every organization around the world has archival data. There is […]

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