Amazon serves up Glacier: Slow moving storage for backup and archives

Aug 22

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In its never-ending quest to deliver new features to the Amazon Web Services (s amzn) product portfolio, the online retailer has added a new storage service designed for archival and backup storage. AWS Glacier is cheap, slow and Amazon hopes startups find it the prefect place to put files that aren't accessed very often. And if it takes off it could become a problem for the existing backup and recovery business (which is often the first offering many smaller telco cloud providers launch to customers).

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