AWS Glacier
- Glacier is a secure, durable and extremely low cost AWS S3 storage aclass for data archiving and long term back
- Glacier data cannot be accessed and the only way of accessing the data from glacier is change the storage class into standard, infrequent access etc
- Vault: This is container for storing archives
https://<region-specific-endpoint>/<account-id>/vaults/<vault-name>
https://glacier.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/1111113456/vaults/demovault
- Archive: This can be any data and is a base unit of storage in Glacier. Each archvie has a unique id and optional description
https://<region-specific-endpoint>/<account-id>/vaults/<vault-name>/archives/<archive-name>
https://glacier.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/1111113456/vaults/demovault/archives/fa39b7a7-e20b-42e7-a41c-35b58008d43c
- Job: Thes perform a select query on archive, retrieve an archive or get inventory of a vault.
- Retrieving the data from archive typically takes minutes to 12 hours
- AWS Support one more storage class called as Glacier Deep archive, where the data is stored in offline tapes in AWS AZ. Retrieval time will be in hours
- Vault contents cannot be viewed in aws console. Using AWS Console we can create only vaults. Uploading the archives to vaults can be done using
- AWS SDK
- AWS CLI
- Lets create a vault from console
- Refer Here for java sdk based archive upload
- Refer Here for .net sdk based archive upload
- Refer Here for download archive using java
- Refer Here for download archive using .net
- Refer Here for aws glacier cli and multipart uploads
- Sample cli command
aws glacier upload-archive --account-id 353635396145 --vault-name ltbackupvault --body .\Downloads.zip
