Amazon's new cloud based Data storage service: Amazon Glacier
Businesses are created or updated based on the usage data collected over a lifetime. And in its lifetime business can create Terabytes of data. The storage of this tons of data can be a nightmare for you at some stage. Today many of the businnesses are going the cloud way. According to a 2011 poll, 84 percent of businesses reported a noticeable savings with cloud computing. On an average, that savings was about 21 percent annually. With the growth of businesses turing to Cloud storage in near time, Amazon's Glacier cloud service can turn out to be best and low cost option for you, if your business requires Data storage or its archiving.
Amazon recently released its new innovative service Glacier. Glacier will revolutionalize the cloud storage with the following benefits:-
1. Extremely low-cost:- Business houses or companies pay hefty amount for the developing and maintaining varioues Data archiving solutions apart from the ongoing cost for operational expenses such as power, facilities, staffing, and maintenance etc. They need to manage the unexpected growth and capacity ratio as well. Sometimes the money is wasted due to this. With Amazon Glacier, you pay only for what you use. Amazon Glacier changes the way how you archive your data and its backup as you pay nothing upfront, pay a very low price for storage, and can scale your usage up or down as needed, while AWS handles all of the operational heavy lifting required to do data retention well.
2. Secure Storage/Transfer:- This service provides highly secure storage and transfer of data. Amazon Glacier supports secure transfer of your data over Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and automatically stores data encrypted at rest using Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) 256, a secure symmetric-key encryption standard using 256-bit encryption keys. You can also control access to your data using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM). IAM enables organizations with multiple employees to create and manage multiple users under a single AWS account and to set resource-based access policies.
3. Durable:- Amazon's Glacier is designed in such a way that it provides annual durability of 99.9999 for any business archive. The service redundantly stores data in multiple facilities and on multiple devices within each facility. To increase durability, Amazon Glacier synchronously stores your data across multiple facilities
before returning SUCCESS on uploading archives. Unlike traditional systems which can require laborious data verification and manual repair, Glacier performs regular, systematic data integrity checks and is built to be automatically self-healing.
4. Flexible:– Amazon Glacier automatically scales to meet your growing and often unpredictable storage requirements. There is no limit to the amount of data you can store in the service. Whether you’re storing petabytes or gigabytes, Glacier automatically scales your storage up or down as needed. In addition, you can choose to store your data in the Amazon Glacier Region that meets your regulatory, throughput, and geographic redundancy criteria.
5. Simple:– It only takes a few clicks in the AWS Management Console to set up Amazon Glacier and then you can upload any amount of data you choose. Traditional storage hardware is only supported for a limited number of years. With Amazon Glacier, customers no longer need to manage the expensive, time-consuming, and risky hardware and storage media migrations that are inevitable when your data retention period exceeds the lifetime of your storage hardware. Data uploaded to Amazon Glacier remains safely stored for as long as it is needed with no additional effort from customers.
Amazon Glacier is an extremely low-cost storage service that provides secure and durable storage for data archiving and backup. With Amazon Glacier, customers can reliably store large or small amounts of data for as little as $0.01 per gigabyte per month, a significant savings compared to traditional storage options.You can explore more at Amazon for pricing and integration details.
Businesses are created or updated based on the usage data collected over a lifetime. And in its lifetime business can create Terabytes of data. The storage of this tons of data can be a nightmare for you at some stage. Today many of the businnesses are going the cloud way. According to a 2011 poll, 84 percent of businesses reported a noticeable savings with cloud computing. On an average, that savings was about 21 percent annually. With the growth of businesses turing to Cloud storage in near time, Amazon's Glacier cloud service can turn out to be best and low cost option for you, if your business requires Data storage or its archiving.
Amazon recently released its new innovative service Glacier. Glacier will revolutionalize the cloud storage with the following benefits:-
1. Extremely low-cost:- Business houses or companies pay hefty amount for the developing and maintaining varioues Data archiving solutions apart from the ongoing cost for operational expenses such as power, facilities, staffing, and maintenance etc. They need to manage the unexpected growth and capacity ratio as well. Sometimes the money is wasted due to this. With Amazon Glacier, you pay only for what you use. Amazon Glacier changes the way how you archive your data and its backup as you pay nothing upfront, pay a very low price for storage, and can scale your usage up or down as needed, while AWS handles all of the operational heavy lifting required to do data retention well.
2. Secure Storage/Transfer:- This service provides highly secure storage and transfer of data. Amazon Glacier supports secure transfer of your data over Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and automatically stores data encrypted at rest using Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) 256, a secure symmetric-key encryption standard using 256-bit encryption keys. You can also control access to your data using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM). IAM enables organizations with multiple employees to create and manage multiple users under a single AWS account and to set resource-based access policies.
3. Durable:- Amazon's Glacier is designed in such a way that it provides annual durability of 99.9999 for any business archive. The service redundantly stores data in multiple facilities and on multiple devices within each facility. To increase durability, Amazon Glacier synchronously stores your data across multiple facilities
before returning SUCCESS on uploading archives. Unlike traditional systems which can require laborious data verification and manual repair, Glacier performs regular, systematic data integrity checks and is built to be automatically self-healing.
4. Flexible:– Amazon Glacier automatically scales to meet your growing and often unpredictable storage requirements. There is no limit to the amount of data you can store in the service. Whether you’re storing petabytes or gigabytes, Glacier automatically scales your storage up or down as needed. In addition, you can choose to store your data in the Amazon Glacier Region that meets your regulatory, throughput, and geographic redundancy criteria.
5. Simple:– It only takes a few clicks in the AWS Management Console to set up Amazon Glacier and then you can upload any amount of data you choose. Traditional storage hardware is only supported for a limited number of years. With Amazon Glacier, customers no longer need to manage the expensive, time-consuming, and risky hardware and storage media migrations that are inevitable when your data retention period exceeds the lifetime of your storage hardware. Data uploaded to Amazon Glacier remains safely stored for as long as it is needed with no additional effort from customers.
Amazon Glacier is an extremely low-cost storage service that provides secure and durable storage for data archiving and backup. With Amazon Glacier, customers can reliably store large or small amounts of data for as little as $0.01 per gigabyte per month, a significant savings compared to traditional storage options.You can explore more at Amazon for pricing and integration details.
