Amazon’s Glacier Backup Service

Wed, Aug 22, 2012

Amazon announced an inexpensive backup service aimed at replacing long term tape storage for small companies. It’s also going to be great for people like me, who setup their own local backup system, but need to rely on a third party for offsite backups.

Offsite backups, 100GB for $1/month, sound great. The downsides are that recoveries are slow and cost extra, but with my existing local backup, I hope to never need to recover from Glacier.