Amazon S3 Glacier
Amazon S3 Glacier
Amazon S3 Glacier provides low-cost, long-term storage
Starting at $0.004 per GB per month, Amazon S3 Glacier allows you to archive large amounts of data at a very low cost. You pay only for what you need, with no minimum commitments or upfront fees. Other factors determining pricing include requests and data transfers out of Amazon S3 Glacier (incoming transfers are free).
Data access options
To keep costs low yet suitable for varying retrieval needs,
Amazon S3 Glacier provides three options for access to archives
that span a few minutes to several hours. For details, see the
Amazon S3 Glacier FAQs
Storage and bandwidth include all file overhead
Rate tiers take into account your aggregate usage for Data Transfer Out to the internet across Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, Amazon Glacier, Amazon RDS, Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon SQS, Amazon SNS, Amazon DynamoDB, and AWS Storage Gateway.
Amazon S3 Glacier Select pricing
Amazon S3 Glacier Select allows queries to run directly on data stored in Amazon S3 Glacier without having to retrieve the entire archive. Pricing for this feature is based on the total amount of data scanned, the amount of data returned by Amazon S3 Glacier Select, and the number of Amazon S3 Glacier Select requests initiated.
For more information, see the
Amazon S3 Glacier pricing page.
Data transfer
Data transfer in to Amazon S3 is free. Data transfer out of
Amazon S3 is priced by Region. For more information on AWS Snowball pricing, see the
AWS Snowball pricing page.