There are some companies that sell things to IT people that use glacier natively. Veeam makes a very good backup product to backup VMs and uses Glacier natively

There are some companies that sell things to IT people that use glacier natively. Veeam makes a very good backup product to backup VMs and uses Glacier natively. No need to use APIs you just select the VM you want to restore and it brings it down from your Glacier store. You have to remember that most IT people have no idea how to use an API, and aren't on Hacker News.