How-to Guide for Archiving to AWS S3 Glacier

Amazon Glacier is an extremely low-cost storage service that provides secure, durable, and flexible storage for data backup and archival.

With Amazon Glacier, customers can reliably store their data for as little as $0.007 per gigabyte per month. Amazon Glacier enables customers to offload the administrative burdens of operating and scaling storage to AWS, so they don’t have to worry about capacity planning, hardware provisioning, data replication, hardware failure detection, and repair, or time-consuming hardware migrations

*Go to your Amazon S3 buckets and select a particular bucket

*Click Management

*There is no lifecycle rule applied to this bucket. Here is how to add a lifecycle rule to automatically transition objects to the Glacier storage class. Click create lifecycle rule

*Enter a rule name and choose a rule scope

*Configure expiration (the number of days from object creation)

*Review configuration settings

*Lifecycle rule is added