> technical level that makes it cheaper for Amazon to run but introduces multi-hour latency. Are you not assuming here that the multi-hour latency is due to "t

> technical level that makes it cheaper for Amazon to run but introduces multi-hour latency. Are you not assuming here that the multi-hour latency is due to "technology". It is also very possible that the multi-hour latency is merely a business decision meant to discourage using "Glacier" as an active read/write virtual disk.