Deep Dive into Amazon Glacier

This 300-level self-paced course introduces you to Amazon Glacier features, service options, and strategies. The course provides you with a functional understanding of the available long-term storage solutions and when to use them. Through several use cases and case studies, it provides you with the skills to secure and migrate existing data from on-premises environments or within cloud platforms.

Intended Audience

This course is intended for:

• Storage administrators
• Storage engineers
• Cloud architects

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this course, learners should be able to:

• Describe the features and functions of Amazon Glacier
• Determine when to use Amazon Glacier
• Secure data for migration from on-premises environments and within cloud platforms
• Migrate existing data to Amazon Glacier
• Explain the security of Amazon Glacier
• Explain how somebody is charged for Amazon Glacier
• Explain how data is ingested into Amazon Glacier
• Explain how data is accessed within Amazon Glacier

This course covers the following concepts:

Section One: Amazon Glacier Overview

• Overview of AWS Storage
• What is Amazon Glacier? ¬
• Benefits of Using Amazon Glacier
• Amazon Glacier Features
• Customer Use Case: FINRA
• Video Demo: Amazon Glacier Console Overview

Section Two: Data Lifecycle Management

• Lifecycle Policies Overview
• Video Demo: Creating an Amazon S3 Lifecycle Policy

Section Three: Durability and Security

• Traditional Storage Durability
• Amazon Glacier Built-In Durability
• Video: James Hamilton details AWS geographic redundancy
• Amazon Glacier Built-In Security
• Vault Lock
• Customer Use Case: Proofpoint
• Video Demo: Amazon Glacier Vault Lock

Section Four: Cost Optimization

• Amazon Glacier Pricing Model
• Sony TCO Case Study
• Targeting Objects for Transition

Section Five: Data Ingestion

• Data Ingestion with Amazon Glacier
• Data Ingestion Options
• Customer Use Case: Scripps
• AWS Storage Gateway
• Video Demo: Using AWS Storage Gateway to Switch from Tape to Cloud Backups
• Use Case: Media Archive Solution
• Multipart Uploads

Section Six: Data Access

• Amazon S3 and Amazon Glacier Native Overview
• Amazon Glacier Retrieval Features
• Amazon Glacier Select
• Video Demo: Restoring Amazon Glacier Archives from Amazon S3

Section Seven: Course Summary