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Amazon Glacier Review

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Amazon Glacier is an extremely low-cost storage service that provides secure and durable storage for data archiving and backup optimized for data that is infrequently accessed.

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Pros

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Pro
Extermely low-cost

$0.007 per gigabyte per month is comparatively cheap and allows for large amounts of cloud storage.

Cons

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Con
Not a backup service

Using Amazon Glacier for backup requires learning and setting up third-party tools.

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Con
Data transfer out >1GB costs money

Retrieving a backup over 1GB costs money starting at $0.090 for 10GB.

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Con
Can't get to data instantly

Data retrieval can take several hours to initiate.

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Arq
10 Recommendations
Newfang Cloud
8 Recommendations
Sync
21 Recommendations
Rethink
17 Recommendations
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4 Recommendations
Carbonite
15 Recommendations
F(x) Data Cloud
44 Recommendations
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