Re:Ask HN: Which file storage service would you recommend fo...
by sciurus on Friday May 22, 2015 @12:26PM
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Glacier is for cold storage, i.e. files you expect toa ccess rarely, if ever. Retrieving data from it requires a song-and-dance and can be costly. It doesn't meet the criteria "be able to access any of my files any time."
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonglacier/latest/dev/data-ret...