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Re:Amazon Glacier by sintaks on Wednesday August 22, 2012 @08:25PM (#4420288)
Not saying it couldn't be very useful for the data-heavy consumer. Just guessing this is more of an enterprise play than anything else. :)
Re:Amazon Glacier by hga on Friday August 24, 2012 @05:37PM (#4429817)
Very possibly, but who knows; per the above on disruptive innovations, Amazon almost certainly doesn't.

I personally don't have a feel for enterprise archival requirements (vs. backups), but I do know there are a whole lot of grandparents out there with indifferently stored digital media of their grand-kids (I know two in particular :-); the right middlemen plus a perception of enough permanent losses of the irreplaceable "precious moments" and AWS might see some serious business from this in the long term.