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Long-term storage with S3 Glacier

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Long-term storage with S3 Glacier

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- S3 has a lot of cool features, and when I say cool, I mean ice cold. - [Recordist] Ice cold. If you have older data that's just sitting around your S3 bucket, but let's say you don't want to delete it, you can create a lifecycle policy that'll automatically move the older files in your S3 bucket to a cheaper storage class within S3, and the cheapest storage class that's in S3 is called S3 Glacier. With Glacier, you're charged a fraction of the monthly fee for the files that you put in here. So it's great for server backups or for log files that you just need to keep around for auditing purposes, but just like that extra freezer that, you know, you keep around your garage, anytime that you pull your data out of Glacier, you have to let it thaw. This could take several hours. So only put data in here that's infrequently used, and you're willing to accept the long wait time before you can access it again. In the AWS…

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