Amazon Glacier Tutorial

Amazon Glacier is a low-cost storage service. It provides secure data archiving and backup facilities. Glacier Design is for durability and reliability of amazon storage service.

• Amazon S3 uses Amazon Glacier to archive your data.
• Extremely low cost to archive storage service.
• Provides high durability storage.
• Storage for as little as $7.20 per gigabyte per month/less.
• Allows you retrieve data within 2-4 hours

How to create Amazon Glacier???

Step:1 First you need to sign up for AWS Management Console.

Step:2

Go to AWS Services Search bar on the top and type in Glacier.

• On the top right corner choose the AWS Region in which you want to provision Glacier.

Here we have 4 steps to create Amazon Glacier.

Step:1 Create Vault

A vault is a container for collecting archives. When we perform a vault, we have to specify the name and have to select an AWS Region where we have to perform the vault.

• Enter the Vault Name and click on Next Step.

Step:2 Event Notification.

Amazon Glacier supports a notification mechanism to report when object is completed.

• Choose ‘Do not enable notification’.

Step: 4

If the region and vault name are correct, then click Submit.

• Your new vault is listed on the Amazon Glacier Vaults page.

• Select ‘Not update yet’. It will open the details of Created Vault.

• Select ‘Delete Vault’ .

• By selecting this option, you can Delete the vault which you’ve created.

• Click on Settings.

• It will open the Data Retrieval Setting. Click on ‘Save’ right after.
• Here you can select Free Tier only or Max Retrieval Rate or No Retrieval Limit based on your requirement.