Amazon S3 Glacier

Amazon S3 Glacier is a secure, durable, and extremely
low-cost cloud storage service for data archiving and long-term backup. It is designed to
deliver 99.999999999 percent durability, with comprehensive security and compliance
capabilities that can help meet even the most stringent regulatory requirements. Amazon S3 Glacier
provides query-in-place functionality, allowing you to run powerful analytics directly on your
archived data at rest.

Amazon S3 Glacier provides low-cost, long-term storage

Starting at $0.0036 per GB per month, Amazon S3 Glacier
Flexible Retrieval allows you to archive large amounts of data
at a very low cost. You pay only for what you need, with no
minimum commitments or upfront fees. Other factors determining
pricing include requests and data transfers out of Amazon S3 Glacier (incoming transfers are free).

Data access options

To keep costs low yet suitable for varying retrieval needs,
Amazon S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval provides three options
for access to archives that span a few minutes to several
hours. Amazon S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval provides access in
milliseconds. For details, see the
Amazon S3 Glacier FAQs.

Storage and bandwidth include all file overhead

Rate tiers take into account your aggregate usage for Data
Transfer Out to the internet across Amazon EC2, Amazon S3,
Amazon Glacier, Amazon RDS, Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), Amazon Simple Notification Service
(Amazon SNS), DynamoDB, and AWS Storage Gateway.

Amazon S3 Glacier Select pricing

Amazon S3 Glacier Select allows queries to run directly on
data stored in Amazon S3 Glacier without having to retrieve
the entire archive. Pricing for this feature is based on the
total amount of data scanned, the amount of data returned by
Amazon S3 Glacier Select, and the number of Amazon S3 Glacier
Select requests initiated.

For more information, see the
Amazon S3 Glacier pricing page.

Data transfer

Data transfer into Amazon S3 is free. Data transfer out of
Amazon S3 is priced by Region. For more information on AWS Snowball pricing, see the
AWS Snowball pricing page.