How to Create a Vault on Amazon S3 Glacier in AWS

To create a Vault on Amazon S3 Glacier in AWS

Introduction:

Amazon S3 Glacier and S3 Glacier Deep Archive are strong, long-lasting, and extremely low-cost Amazon S3 cloud storage classes for data archiving and long-term reinforcement. They are created to deliver 99.999999999% durability and implement comprehensive security and compliance capabilities that can improve meet even the most stringent regulatory requirements. Customers can save data for as short as $1 per terabyte per month, important savings compared to on-premises solutions. Amazon S3 Glacier gives three options for access to archives, from a few minutes to numerous hours, and S3 Glacier Deep Archive gives two access options ranging from 12 to 48 hours. This tutorial will cover about to create Vault on Amazon S3 Glacier in AWS.

Procedure:

Switch you AWS account and login your account Then click services and search S3 there you can see the S3 Glacier click on it This is the dashboard of S3 Glacier

Here Click create vault for create a new vault for Glacier, then enter the valid vault name here and click next step Configure you event notification. I will select Don not enable notifications then click next step Here you can review your vault before creating, all your requirements are correct or not then click submit Here you can see the vault is created successfully. If you want to the see details about vault click vault. Then you can see you details, notification, permissions and all about the vault

If you need to delete you vault select your vault and click delete then you vault will be deleted With this method, to create vault on Amazon S3 Glacier on AWS come to an end.

FAQ
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How much data can I store?
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There is no maximum limit to the total amount of data that can be stored in Amazon S3 Glacier. Individual archives are limited to a maximum size of 40 terabytes.
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What kind of data can I store?
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You can store virtually any kind of data in any format. You can also deploy compliance storage controls with Vault Lock to store regulatory and compliance archives in immutable, Write Once Read Many (WORM) formats.
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How should I choose between Amazon S3 Glacier and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)?
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Amazon S3 is a durable, secure, simple, and fast storage service designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers. Use Amazon S3 if you need low latency or frequent access to your data. Use Amazon S3 Glacier if low storage cost is paramount, and you do not require millisecond access to your data.
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What is Amazon S3 Glacier?
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Amazon S3 Glacier is an extremely low-cost storage service that provides secure, durable, and flexible storage for data backup and archival. With Amazon S3 Glacier, customers can reliably store their data for as little as $0.004 per gigabyte per month.
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Why is Amazon Glacier now called Amazon S3 Glacier?
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Customers have long thought of Amazon Glacier, our backup and archival storage service, as a storage class of Amazon S3. In fact, a very high percentage of the data stored in Amazon Glacier today comes directly from customers using S3 Lifecycle policies to move cooler data into Amazon Glacier. Now, Amazon Glacier is officially part of S3 and will be known as Amazon S3 Glacier (S3 Glacier).