Data Archival (Glacier)

Summary

Extremely low-cost, long-term storage for data you rarely need to access — retrieval can take minutes to hours depending on the tier, a trade-off worth making for compliance or historical data retention.

• 1Move a sample object into an archival storage tier and note the retrieval options.
• 2Learn why archival storage fits compliance-driven retention (e.g. 7-year financial records).
• 3Understand the retrieval time trade-off before choosing archival storage for anything you might need urgently.