{"id":432,"date":"2021-03-17T17:13:47","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T17:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.arqbackup.com\/blog\/?p=432"},"modified":"2021-03-22T12:18:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T12:18:00","slug":"glacier-pricing-drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arqbackup.com\/blog\/glacier-pricing-drop\/","title":{"rendered":"AWS Drops Price for Uploading to Glacier"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On Monday Jeff Barr <a href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/blogs\/aws\/amazon-s3-glacier-price-reduction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">revealed<\/a> a change to Glacier pricing: 40% less for &#8220;PUT request&#8221; fees for all AWS Regions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you backing up to Glacier with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arqbackup.com\/\">Arq<\/a>, the amount you&#8217;ll pay in request fees is now 40% less. 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