Amazon S3 Glacier Primary Use Case

Kiran Rajanna - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Solutions Architect and Cloud Security Consultant at Cgi Deutschland KG

We use Amazon S3 Glacier for several purposes. We have buckets for our pipelines, software repository, timesheets, and performance data. As per state regulations, we must retain this data for eight years. So to comply with these regulations, we have set up a lifecycle policy in S3 that moves the data to Glacier after five years. This means the data will be stored in Glacier for the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth years. We can retrieve the data from Glacier if we need to access it during this time. Beyond five years, the data will remain in Glacier for three years.

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Alan Bloor - PeerSpot reviewer
Geographic Information System Developer at Public Sector

We use Amazon S3 Glacier for hosting web files for testing.

We take a lot of data from the police to do ANPR. It's basically for big data to allow bandwidth on the data center, where there are about 1,000 images per second coming through to the data center.

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Johan Wentzel - PeerSpot reviewer
Forensic Technology Manager at Baker Tilly

The solution is used for cloud storage.

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Deepak  Nagar - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager, Strategic Alliances at Softcell Technologies Limited

We used to have our own storage, hardware, and software in a legacy environment. Our data was completely stored on-premises. Nowadays, AWS is offering a cheap way of storing data. We use Amazon S3 Glacier for the project's storage purposes.

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Shambhu Narayan  Singh - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at Axis Securities Limited

We use Amazon S3 Glacier for our storage purposes.

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Dwight Tuhusula - PeerSpot reviewer
Tech Architecture Manager at Accenture

I use Amazon S3 Glacier for archival storage of data.

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Dileep Maurya - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineering manager at IDFC Bank

We use the solution for file storage. We store customer data in CSV and Excel files. We also use AWS for deployment purposes.

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PK
Cloud Platform Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We use Amazon S3 Glacier to provide secure and durable data archiving at a low cost compared to the standard storage options. I'm currently working with Azure Cloud, and I have done most of the migration from Amazon S3 Glacier to Azure Blob Storage.

Amazon S3 Glacier is used to store data, files, and required certificates.

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SP
Solution architect at Cargill

My company leverages the tool's functionalities for document and file storage. The tool also provides leverage to our company to push documents from outside into our networks or into video applications that can easily consume them, which helps our organization create a good interface for our customers. In general, the tool is useful to push data and information across the organization.

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DIRK UYTTERHOEVEN - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Enterprise Architect at DV Consulting

The solution is used to store data.

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LC
Senior Engineer at Pilot Travel Centers Llc

We use the product heavily. All our data is stored in it. We are using Delta Lake, which is built on the product. We have started using the solution for an app project. Some files and storage should not be in the hot area. It should go into Glacier. We are looking into some recycling policies.

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Praneeth N - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Product Management at SID GLOBAL SOLUTIONS LLC

I use the solution for storage. We use it for application data storage and retrieval and for data backup. It has various use cases for storing applications, platforms, or other data types.

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Bertin Fonge - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Analyst and Developer at Bridge Labs

I use Amazon S3 Glacier for cloud automation to deploy basic and dynamic websites. We can create Terraform for resource provisioning using it. It helps us with cross-region verification of resources.

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Ozgur-Ekinci - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Operations Manager at BTSERVISI

The solution is used for backup purposes. We had it for some of our customers for their static file needs a couple of years ago.

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Matt Hardy - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Manager/Deployment Manager at Hivedome Consultancy Services

We use the solution for long-term backups. We take database backups and synchronize them to Glacier after 30 days. We also use it as part of our disaster recovery.

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Dave Ezrakhovich - PeerSpot reviewer
Site Reliability Engineering at WiseTech Global

We use Amazon S3 Glacier mainly for block storage.

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AS
Chief Business Officer at Couture.ai

We're a tech company, so we use a variety of solutions, but S3 Glacier is what we currently use for the database. 

We use it both internally for our own projects and our clients. We host some projects on Azure and AWS, depending on client requirements.

It's mostly used by enterprises for hosting various solutions.

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Alexander Rozenberg - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of IT at Broadway Gaming Ltd.

We use the solution for storing file objects.

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PRANABESH BHAUMIK - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at Conacent Consulting Pvt. Ltd.

I use Amazon S3 Glacier to store large files and documents for long-term archival purposes.

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Mbaye Babacar Gueye - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner at Bennen

We use it for archiving.

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Victor Bergman - PeerSpot reviewer
Executive Head of Technology at Imbali Customised Solutions (Pty) Ltd.

We mainly used the solution for file storage and hosting static websites.

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JC
IT head at Ficobank

Amazon S3 Glacier can be used for storage and RDBMS applications.

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Ben Nnatuanya - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager, Security Operations Centre at Phillips Consulting Limited

I used the solution for firewall configuration and to configure rules and permissions.

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Eustace Noronha - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistant IT Manager at The American Baccalaureate School

I work in a school. We have a lot of graphics, videos, pictures, and multimedia data. We use the solution for data backup.

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Harsha_Vardhan - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps Engineer

We use the solution for migration. 

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AL
Test Automation Lead at Entrotsust technlogies

We use it for our products, mainly as a source for some data, like a type of S3 bucket.

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MK
It at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

If I construct many web servers, it would need network and OS settings. It would also need security. Amazon is a comprehensive solution.

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SA
CEO at ITSAGILITY DMCC

We use S3 as a short-term backup, and we use the Glacier as a long retention backup for our customers. We also use Crosswork to orchestrate from on-prem to the cloud. For example, we had a customer who has certified remote offices, and they want to control the backup at these remote offices from the head office. We installed our own software, and we booked and supplied S3 pockets to each one. 

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AN
Solution architect at a integrator with 51-200 employees

We use Amazon S3 Glacier for HPE 3PAR saving, content restoration, and deep storage for hosted data storage.

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JoshuaEfienokwu - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Our primary use case for this solution are data backups and solution discovery.

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RS
Director - DevOps and Infrastructure at INTIGRAL

We primarily use the solution for cold storage.

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GI
Chief Executive at Quickening Group

We used the solution to store images that we did not require access to immediately.

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Buyer's Guide
Amazon S3 Glacier
April 2024
Learn what your peers think about Amazon S3 Glacier. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2024.
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