Storage - S3 Glacier

Question 1

What is S3 Glacier?

Answer 1

long-tearm archival solution optimized for IA or cold data

Question 2

What type of web service is Glacier?

Answer 2

REST-based

Question 3

Storage limitations?

Answer 3

storage of archives and data are unlimited

Question 4

How is Glacier durability and availability?

Answer 4

99.999999999% durability and synchronous data stores across multiple AZs

Question 5

Lifecycle management?

Answer 5

Glacier works with S3 Lifecycle rules to archive data and reduce overall storage cost.

Question 6

What is a vault?

Answer 6

container of storing archives; each vault has unique address; stores unlimited number of archives; region specific

Question 7

What is an archive?

Answer 7

base unit of storage; any data, such as a photo, video and or document

Question 8

What is a job?

Answer 8

select query, retrieval, and or get of an inventory of an archive in a vault; multiple jobs can run at once

Question 9

Security

Answer 9

encrypts data at rest by default; SSL for data in transit; immutable storage; require credentials to access bucket; glacier vault is the primary resource of vault policies

Question 10

Pricing

Answer 10

charged per GB per month of storage; retrieval operations, upload requests, data transferred out of Glacier; charge if data is deleted within 90 days

Question 11

limitations

Answer 11

up to 1000 vaults with a single AWS account

Question 12

What is glacier vault lock?

Answer 12

allows you to easily deploy and enforce compliance controls for individual vaults with a vault lock policy. Once locked, the policy can no longer be changed.