WebPerf Amazon AWS S3 & Glacier Price Reductions + New Retrieval Options

eva2000 · Nov 23, 2016

Amazon AWS Storage has announced price reductions for AWS S3 and Glacier with new retrieval options for Glacier AWS Storage Update – S3 & Glacier Price Reductions + Additional Retrieval Options for Glacier | AWS Blog

S3 & Glacier Price Reduction
As long-time AWS customers already know, we work relentlessly to reduce our own costs, and to pass the resulting savings along in the form of a steady stream of AWS Price Reductions.

We are reducing the per-GB price for S3 Standard Storage in most AWS regions, effective December 1, 2016. The bill for your December usage will automatically reflect the new, lower prices. Here are the new prices for Standard Storage:
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New Glacier Retrieval Options
Many AWS customers use Amazon Glacier as the archival component of their tiered storage architecture. Glacier allows them to meet compliance requirements (either organizational or regulatory) while allowing them to use any desired amount of cloud-based compute power to process and extract value from the data.

Today we are enhancing Glacier with two new retrieval options for your Glacier data. You can now pay a little bit more to expedite your data retrieval. Alternatively, you can indicate that speed is not of the essence and pay a lower price for retrieval.
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Taking all of this in to account, you can now select one of the following options for retrieving your data from Glacier (The original rate-based retrieval model is no longer applicable):

Standard retrieval is the new name for what Glacier already provides, and is the default for all API-driven retrieval requests. You get your data back in a matter of hours (typically 3 to 5), and pay $0.01 per GB along with $0.05 for every 1,000 requests.

Expedited retrieval addresses the need for “while you wait access.” You can get your data back quickly, with retrieval typically taking 1 to 5 minutes. If you store (or plan to store) more than 100 TB of data in Glacier and need to make infrequent, yet urgent requests for subsets of your data, this is a great model for you (if you have less data, S3’s Infrequent Access storage class can be a better value). Retrievals cost $0.03 per GB and $0.01 per request.

Retrieval generally takes between 1 and 5 minutes, depending on overall demand. If you need to get your data back in this time frame even in rare situations where demand is exceptionally high, you can provision retrieval capacity. Once you have done this, all Expedited retrievals will automatically be served via your Provisioned capacity. Each unit of Provisioned capacity costs $100 per month and ensures that you can perform at least 3 Expedited Retrievals every 5 minutes, with up to 150 MB/second of retrieval throughput.

Bulk retrieval is a great fit for planned or non-urgent use cases, with retrieval typically taking 5 to 12 hours at a cost of $0.0025 per GB (75% less than for Standard Retrieval) along with $0.025 for every 1,000 requests. Bulk retrievals are perfect when you need to retrieve large amounts of data within a day, and are willing to wait a few extra hours in exchange for a very significant discount.

If you do not specify a retrieval option when you call InitiateJob to retrieve an archive, a Standard Retrieval will be initiated. Your existing jobs will continue to work as expected, and will be charged at the new rate.

To learn more, read about Data Retrieval in the Glacier FAQ.
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apidevlab · Nov 24, 2016

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