Stay tuned for an upcoming Media & Entertainment customer Glacier migration project blog post.

In the meantime, enjoy this good overview presented at re:Invent in November 2014.

Amazon Glacier is a secure, durable, and extremely low-cost storage service for data archiving and online backup. Customers can reliably store large or small amounts of data for as little as $0.01 per gigabyte per month, a significant savings compared to on-premises solutions. To keep costs low, Amazon Glacier is optimized for infrequently accessed data where a retrieval time of several hours is suitable.