Amazon Glacier is a storage service optimized for infrequently used data, or "cold data." The service provides durable and extremely low-cost storage with security features for data archiving and backup. With Amazon Glacier, you can store your data cost effectively for months, years, or even decades. Amazon Glacier enables you to offload the administrative burdens of operating and scaling storage to AWS, so you don't have to worry about capacity planning, hardware provisioning, data replication, hardware failure detection and recovery, or time-consuming hardware migrations. For more service highlights and pricing information, go to the Amazon Glacier detail page.

Developer Guide
Provides detailed information about setting up and working with Amazon Glacier using the REST API and the AWS SDKs for Java and Microsoft .NET.
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