Name: Amazon S3 Glacier
Rating: 4.3 (53 reviews)

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Service Information on Amazon S3 Glacier

Updated 13th October 2025

What is Amazon S3 Glacier?

Amazon S3 Glacier is a software designed for secure, durable, and low-cost data archiving and long-term backup. It provides cloud storage capabilities enabling organizations to store large volumes of data securely for extended periods, with options for retrieval times ranging from minutes to hours. The software supports features such as access management, data encryption both at rest and in transit, and integration with other AWS storage services. Amazon S3 Glacier addresses the business need for compliant data retention, regulatory archiving, and disaster recovery by automating lifecycle management and offering scalable storage for infrequently accessed information.

Overall experience with Amazon S3 Glacier

DEVOPS ENGINEER

3B - 10B USD, Healthcare and Biotech

FAVORABLE

“good long term storage in AWS”

5.0

Oct 17, 2025

Very good long time storage for us that we use across different workload

Software Development Manager

30B + USD, Finance (non-banking)

CRITICAL

“Easy to use and cost effective storage”

3.0

Nov 27, 2023

I love how the different types of storage work together. The resources to understand how to configure are easy to understand.

About Company

Company Description

Amazon Web Services (AWS), established in 2006, is focused on providing essential infrastructure services to businesses globally in the form of cloud computing. The key advantage offered through cloud computing, particularly via AWS, is its capacity to shift fixed infrastructure expenses into flexible costs. Businesses have been able to forgo extensive planning and procurement of servers and other Information Technology (IT) resources, owing to AWS. AWS seeks to provide businesses with prompt and cost-effective access to resources using Amazon's expertise and economies of scale, as and when their business requires. Currently, AWS offers a robust, scalable, economic infrastructure platform on the cloud powering an extensive array of businesses worldwide. It operates across numerous industries with data center locations in various parts of the globe including U.S., Europe, Singapore, and Japan.

Company Details

Company type

Public

Year Founded

2006

Head office location

Seattle, United States

Number of employees

10001+

Website

http://aws.amazon.com

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Amazon S3 Glacier Likes & Dislikes

- Not expensive at all, good cost - Easy to use with cli, code sdk and console - easy to integrate with different AWS services we use - integrated security features

I like the documentation, the cost is reasonable and working with AWS is pretty easy.

very cheap and efficient

Nothing

I feel kind of trapped in the AWS ecosystem.

the retrieval cost

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1B-10B USD

Healthcare and Biotech

Review Source

good long term storage in AWS

Associate Director for Research Services

Affordable Storage Offers Efficiency But Limited Sharing and Costly Retrieval

4.0

Jul 16, 2025

cost effective storage but lacks flexibility to allow some level of sharing at reasonnable cost

OPERATIONS ASSOCIATE

50M-1B USD

IT Services

Discover the Power of Glacier: Integrating Data Storage with S3

Jan 24, 2025

It's a good solution for storing data that doesn't require frequent access and also offers low costs. It has turned out well for long time archival.

Senior QA Automation Engineer

Software

Harnessing Glacier for Cost-Effective, Long-term Data Storage

Jan 17, 2025

For my company, Glacier is like a digital vault where we store old test results and it is less expensive

Engineer

Managing Costs with Amazon S3 Glacier: A Long-Term Storage Solution

Jan 4, 2025

My experience with Amazon S3 Glacier involves managing cost effective long term data storage for archival and compliance requirements. I've configured lifecycle policies to automate data transitions from S3 to Glacier ensuring optimal storage costs.