Amazon S3 Glacier

Amazon S3 Glacier is a secure, durable, and extremely low-cost cloud storage service for data archiving and long-term backup. It is designed to deliver 99.999999999 percent durability, with comprehensive security and compliance capabilities that can help meet even the most stringent regulatory requirements. Amazon S3 Glacier provides query-in-place functionality, allowing you to run powerful analytics directly on your archived data at rest.

For pricing information, see Amazon S3 Glacier service pricing.

Data access options

To keep costs low yet suitable for varying retrieval needs, Amazon S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval provides three options for access to archives that span a few minutes to several hours. Amazon S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval provides access in milliseconds. 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 Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS), DynamoDB, and AWS Storage Gateway.

Data transfer

Data transfer into 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.