You got a problem right away in that Glacier only keeps your files on the staging disk for 24 hours. Unless you're planning on doing your disk in a set of separ

You got a problem right away in that Glacier only keeps your files on the staging disk for 24 hours. Unless you're planning on doing your disk in a set of separate archives, you're going to run into issues. And if you do separate archives you have to worry about the $0.05/thousand requests problem. You do still have to worry about bandwidth costs, $0.12 per GB, which adds another $120 to the cost of your restore: http://aws.amazon.com/glacier/pricing/ http://aws.amazon.com/glacier/pricing/ I can't speak for you but restores that cost $185 and take 5 days sound like a losing backup strategy for me.