Amazon announces a cold storage take on the AWS S3 general-purpose cloud storage solution-- S3 Glacier Deep Archive, an alternative to the S3 Glacier offering aimed at making cloud-based archiving more attractive compared to legacy systems.
Glacier Deep Archive is designed for customers with large (of a petabyte or more) volumes of important but seldom accessed data. Usually such raw data is collected and stored for years just in case it is required, or retained for compliance or auditing purposes. Amazon claims Glacier Deep Archive offers the same durable and secure long-term storage as off-premises tape archives, without the hassle involved with such services.
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