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Amazon Web Services announced several changes<\/a> on 21 December, 2016. They\u2019ve reduced prices, they\u2019ve expanded from 1 retrieval tier (3-5 hour delay) to 3 tiers, and they\u2019ve replaced their confusing retrieval pricing with much simpler per-GB pricing.<\/p>\n

Price Reductions<\/h2>\n

Prices for Glacier storage were reduced in most AWS regions. Prices dropped about 23% in most US regions, 24% in EU regions, and 16-28% in Asia Pacific regions. Full pricing details are at the AWS Glacier pricing page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Retrieval Tiers<\/h2>\n

Before, there was only 1 way to get your data out of Glacier. Request an object be made downloadable, wait 3-5 hours for AWS to make it downloadable, and then download it. AWS still offers that option — they call it “Standard” retrieval tier. But there are 2 other retrieval tiers now — Expedited and Bulk. If you request an object using Expedited tier, AWS makes the object downloadable in 1-5 minutes! As you might expect, the faster you want it made downloadable, the more you’re going to pay.<\/p>\n

No More “Peak Hourly Request Fee”<\/h2>\n

You may have seen some of the blog<\/a> posts<\/a> warning<\/a> about Glacier retrieval and the dreaded “peak hourly request fee” which AWS charged based on the peak rate at which you were making objects downloadable during a given month (how’s that for confusing?). No more! AWS has eliminated that fee. Instead, they charge a straightforward per-GB fee for the data you download. The price depends on the retrieval tier you choose. There\u2019s no longer any danger of running up an enormous fee by requesting data too quickly.<\/p>\n

Arq supports all 3 Glacier retrieval tiers<\/h2>\n

If you\u2019re using\u00a0Arq Backup<\/a>\u00a0to back up your files to Glacier, when you go to restore a folder Arq will ask you whether you want to use Expedited, Standard or Bulk retrieval tier. It\u2019ll estimate the costs as well.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s still a 3-step process to get data from Glacier though. Arq has to request that objects be made downloadable, wait until they\u2019re downloadable, and then download them. Because of this, Arq requests only enough data as it can download in the given timeframe. For instance, if you choose Standard retrieval tier, Arq requests approximately 4 hours\u2019 worth of downloadable data. Four hours later, it requests the next 4 hours\u2019 worth while simultaneously downloading the first 4 hours\u2019 worth as it becomes available. It repeats this process until all the data you\u2019ve asked Arq to restore has been restored. In this way, the requesting part stays 4 hours \u201cahead\u201d of the downloading part. The same thing happens in Bulk mode except the 4-hour interval is 6 hours instead. For the Expedited tier the interval is 1 minute. In each case, Arq makes sure it doesn’t get too far ahead of itself in requesting objects.<\/p>\n

As before, Arq will request data at a rate you choose, so choose a rate approximately equal to the bandwidth you have available (Arq tries to estimate this for you).<\/p>\n

UPDATE 20 March 2017: We\u2019ve since disabled Expedited-tier support in Arq because it turns out Glacier\u2019s per-request pricing for Expedited is bonkers.<\/strong><\/p>\n

For a full explanation of Glacier pricing check out our AWS Glacier Pricing Explained<\/a> article.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019ve got any questions or comments, send us mail at\u00a0support@arqbackup.com<\/a>\u00a0or write a tweet to\u00a0@arqbackup<\/a>. We strive to respond promptly and help you any way we can!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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