Backup to Amazon S3 and Amazon S3 Glacier
summary
Amazon S3 and S3 Glacier promise cloud backup with measurable tradeoffs: 11 nines durability across three+ AZs, global scale (exabytes stored, trillions of objects, peaks ~60 TB/s), and pay-as-you-go pricing. Built features include S3 Object Lock (WORM), replication options, encryption, versioning, lifecycle policies and storage classes from Standard to Glacier Deep Archive 12‑hour restores. Integration paths are Storage Gateway tape gateway VTL or direct backup-app plugins with deduplication/compression and PrivateLink support.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction to S3 and Glacier
- 0:23Key backup use cases
- 1:47Five advantages of S3 Glacier
- 2:52Scalability durability availability
- 3:37Reduced complexity with cloud
- 4:39Built-in data protection features
- 6:47Simplified cost model
- 8:12Storage class options
- 9:38Backup methods to S3 Glacier
- 12:03Summary and recap
- 12:48Q&A session