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