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It's a little irritating this is only available via the S3 API rather than something I can just move my archive too. I guess maybe it's time to upload to S3 an
by Twirrim 8y ago
It's a little irritating this is only available via the S3 API rather than something I can just move my archive too. I guess maybe it's time to upload to S3 and be finally retire my Glacier archive after ~5 years.
Reading between the lines, I wonder if they're really trying to just deprecate the Glacier API, and move to Glacier being a different storage tier in S3. Which is probably what it should have been in the first place. AWS will likely never actually retire the Glacier API (much like SimpleDB has never actually been retired), it'll just hang on, not receiving new features.
- donavanm 8y agoDont forget to access your archive over the s3 bittorrent endpoint.
- sly010 8y ago> [...] move to Glacier being a different storage tier in S3 I am almost certain they are playing catchup here, given that GCP had this feature for ever ("coldline" storage class), last time I checked it was more expensive though.
- Twirrim 8y agoGlacier's standard archive pricing has been competitive with Coldline all along, and S3 has had the ability via lifecycle to transition to Glacier since early in Glacier's existence, so it's been effectively possible to leverage the S3 API with Glacier, just with various provisos. Glacier here seems to be dropping out an even cheaper option than they had before, provided you're happier with even longer retrieval times. Which for my purposes is perfectly fine.