Archive For August 21, 2012

Glacier: Engineering for Cold Data Storage in the Cloud

Earlier today Amazon Web Services announced Glacier, a low-cost, cloud-hosted, cold storage solution. Cold storage is a class of storage that is discussed infrequently and yet it is by far the largest storage class of them all. Ironically, the storage we usually talk about and the storage I’ve worked on for most of my life…

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