S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval deep dive: Which S3 Storage Class is right for

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In this post, we’ll get hands on with S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval to see how much this new AWS storage class can help you save. Plus, we offer an infographic to help you decide which S3 Storage Class is right for your needs.

S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval aims to give you the best of both worlds, as an archival solution that has both low costs and synchronous instant access.

My call for most impactful announcement from today would be S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval, which is cheaper to PUT and has pretty reasonable retrieval costs (mostly per GB, small files negligible).

With S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval using the same synchronous API’s as S3 Standard and Standard-IA, no application refactoring is necessary.

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