Amazon Glacier Developer Guide

The Amazon Glacier Developer Guide explains the data archiving and backup solution provided by the Amazon Glacier web service, and steps you through how to create, configure, and manage vaults and archives using both the AWS Management Console and the Amazon Glacier API.

Amazon Glacier is a secure, low cost, and reliable service designed for storing infrequently accessed data, or "cold data." Examples include digital media archives, financial and healthcare records, raw genomic sequence data, long-term database backups, and data that must be retained for regulatory compliance.