Online storage "Amazon Glacier" that can be used with an unlimited maximum of 1 yen per 1 GB per month

ByBank of England

Among online storage, the capacity that can be used for the basic fee is fixed, while there are many services that additional capacity is required or additional services are required for more capacity, Amazon fee of $ 0.01 per month (about 0.8 In yen), we released the storage "Amazon Glacier" which is available indefinitely for the data volume itself.

Amazon Glacier
http://aws.amazon.com/jp/glacier/


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If you think that you want to keep files at hand, you will need to prepare storage capacity such as HDD, SSD, Blu-ray and DVD for storage capacity you want to save, and if you run out of Amazon you need to buy it, Amazon Glacier Pre-payment is unnecessary for use.Complete metered rate system, And the fee is 0.01 dollar per month (about 0.8 yen) per 1 GB, and all of these continuous operation expenses etc. are included in the price. The fee differs slightly depending on the region, and it is 0.012 dollars (about 0.95 yen) per 1 GB in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) region.

All data transfer is done in SSL, and the transferred data is encrypted with AES 256. Uploaded data is archived together with a large number of files collectively, and even one can be archived. When retrieving (downloading) each archive, it is necessary to create a job, and it takes 3 hours 30 minutes to 4 hours 30 minutes.

The average annual durability of the archive is 99.999999999%The upgraded data is redundantly stored in multiple facilities and is stored in multiple devices within each facility. At the time of uploading, data is stored in a plurality of facilities and then "upload completed" is made, and even if the data integrity check is performed periodically and the file is corruptedSelf-repair is done automaticallyIt has become like.

Up to 40 TB can be stored for one archive, but as for storage capacity,There is no upper limit on the amount of data that can be storedIt is OK even if it is petabyte unit. The storage is automatically scaled up or down according to the increase or decrease of the data volume. You can also choose to store data in separate regions such as Tokyo, Virginia, Oregon, depending on regulations, throughput, geographical redundancy and other circumstances.

No transfer fee will be charged for uploading any Region.

Transfer fee for downloading differs slightly depending on the region, but for Asia Pacific (Tokyo), up to 1 GB per month is free. From there it is 0.201 dollar per 1 GB (about 16 yen), 10 TB to 40 TB is a little cheaper and it is a little cheaper to be 0.158 dollars (about 12.5 yen) per 1 GB, 40 TB to 100 TB is 0.137 dollar per 1 GB (about 10.9 yen), 100 TB ~ 350 TB It is $ 0.127 per 1 GB (about 10 yen), and for further transfers it is "inquiry".

For example, in the case of a person who takes a lot of pictures, put a JPEG image out of the photographed photograph data at hand, upload the RAW image to this Glacier, check it with JPEG when necessary, It is also possible to download RAW only as an image named "Kore!"