Posted On: Nov 27, 2018
Amazon S3 now supports three new features to reduce your storage costs by making it even easier to build archival applications using the Amazon S3 Glacier storage class and by enabling one-click data replication to S3 Glacier in another Amazon Web Services Region. S3 PUT to Glacier, S3 Restore Notifications, and S3 Restore Speed Upgrade are available using the S3 APIs, Amazon Software Development Kits (SDKs), and Amazon Web Services Management Console for simpler integration with your archival workloads and applications.
Customers have long thought of Amazon Glacier, our backup and archival storage service, as a storage class of Amazon S3. In fact, a very high percentage of the data stored in Amazon Glacier today comes directly from customers using S3 Lifecycle policies to move cooler data into Amazon Glacier. Today, we are announcing that Amazon Glacier is officially part of S3 and is now Amazon S3 Glacier (S3 Glacier). All of the existing Glacier direct APIs continue to work just as they have, but we’ve now made it even easier to use the S3 APIs to store data in the S3 Glacier storage class.
With the S3 PUT API, you can now upload objects directly to the S3 Glacier storage class without having to manage zero-day lifecycle policies.
S3 Restore Notifications now provide you with event notifications when a restoration from the S3 Glacier storage class has started and again when the object is successfully restored. These restore event notifications can then be used to automatically trigger Amazon Lambda functions to start the next step in an archival workflow.
Finally, with S3 Restore Speed Upgrade, you can now issue a second S3 Glacier restore request at a faster restore speed and get your data back sooner.
The Amazon S3 features are now generally available in Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) region, operated by Sinnet, and in Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) region, operated by NWCD. To learn more about S3 PUT to Glacier, S3 Restore Notifications, and S3 Restore Speed Upgrade, please visit the Amazon S3 Developer Guide.