Amazon S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval
Storage Type
Hot
Cold
Enterprise-grade security available (including SSE, Object Lock, replication)
Compliance compatible (including HIPAA, PCI-DSS friendly)
Supports ranging use cases (i.e., application storage, backup & recovery, active media archive)
Intended for infrequent access
Pay-as-you-go storage pricing
$6/TB/mo.
$5/TB/mo.
Annual capacity-based bundles available
Starts at $1,560 per 20TB/yr.
Includes:
Upload (PUT) fees
$0.02 per 1,000 requests
Lifecycle rule fees
$0.02 per 1,000 requests
Retrieval fees
$0.03/GB
Egress fees
Free up to 3x total monthly storage, additional at $0.01/GB
(Also free unlimited to many CDN and Compute partners)
Starts at $0.09/GB including egress to other AWS regions
Minimum storage duration fees
90-day minimum storage duration policy, applied even when objects are moved to other AWS storage classes
Small object fees
Objects <128KB are charged as 128KB each
Small file fees
Data migration
$0 for >50TB committed contract
Jermaine Harrell
Manager, Media Infrastructure & Technology, Complex Networks
reduction for retrieval delays
If you delete, overwrite, or move objects to a different AWS storage class before the 90-day minimum period, be aware that the objects will be charged for 90 days of storage. This also means, if you move objects to a different storage class, you may be paying for Glacier Instant Retrieval and the new storage class concurrently for some period of time. Depending on your use case, this can result in significant cost. On the other hand, if you store every object unchanged for 90 or more days, the minimum storage duration policy will have no impact on you.
Yes, depending on the circumstances, customers can incur both expenses when accessing and using data.
Yes, Backblaze offers Universal Data Migration to support data migration from a range of sources, including cloud-to-cloud migration from Amazon S3 Glacier storage classes.
Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage customers can enjoy free Universal Data Migration–yes, we really do take on the data transfer and egress fees–for inbound migrations on >50TB committed pay-as-you-go contracts and all B2 Reserve capacity bundles.
The Backblaze B2 Storage Cloud is architected and designed with data security in mind. The key pillars of our security framework are enterprise-grade access management security, data storage security, and architecture & physical security. These include a wide range of administrative and technical controls, implemented at the enterprise, business process, and system levels, and attestations—so whether you’re seeking a platform designed to 11 nines of durability, encryption options, immutability, SOC 2 compliance, data replication, or just peace of mind, Backblaze is built for you.
