Monday, September 17, 2012

Introducing Glacier support for CloudBerry S3 Explorer



As always we are adding features to make it easier for our customers to use the functionality to offer the most compelling Amazon S3 , CloudFront , IAM and Glacier client on Windows platform.

Amazon Glacier, a secure, reliable and extremely low cost storage service designed for data archiving and backup. In order to keep costs low, Amazon Glacier is optimized for data that is infrequently accessed and for which retrieval times of several hours are suitable. With Amazon Glacier, you can reliably store large or small amounts of data for as little as $0.01 per gigabyte per month.

The latest release of CloudBerry Explorer comes with full support for Amazon Glacier. Using the product you can create vaults, move data to vaults and request to download them back to your computer.


You can create vaults in any of the available AWS regions


Copy / Move data to the vaults. 



By default the information on the data copied to the vault with CloudBerry Explorer is stored in the local repository. Although it doesn't mean that it is readily available for copying back.


Get Inventory of the vault, to make data available for copying back to a local computer using the taskbar


or context menu


+++
Note: this post applies to CloudBerry Explorer 3.6 and later.
As always we would be happy to hear your feedback and you are welcome to post a comment.
CloudBerry S3 Explorer is a Windows freeware product that helps managing Amazon S3 storage and CloudFront . You can download it at http://www.cloudberrylab.com/free 
CloudBerry S3 Explorer PRO is a Windows program that helps managing Amazon S3 storage and CloudFront . You can download it at http://www.cloudberrylab.com/pro  It is priced at $39.99 
Like our products? Please help us spread the word about them. Learn here how to do it.
Want to get CloudBerry Explorer PRO for FREE? Make a blog post about us! 

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Does Glacier support IAM?

Anonymous said...

Are you sure that "US Standard" is an available region? I don't see it as an option in Amazon's Management Console.

Andy Mandy said...

"US Standard" is the same as "US East" . Perhaps in the AWS Console it is just called US East?

Anonymous said...

According to aws.amazon.com/s3
"The US Standard Region automatically routes requests to facilities in Northern Virginia or the Pacific Northwest using network maps."

That doesn't sound like it's the same as "US East."

I also would like to have IAM support too.

Anonymous said...

http://aws.amazon.com/en/glacier/faqs/#How_should_I_choose_between_Amazon_Glacier_and_Amazon_S3

"In the coming months, Amazon S3 will introduce an option that will allow customers to seamlessly move data between Amazon S3 and Amazon Glacier based on data lifecycle policies."

Any plans on supporting that or will you purposely not add that feature in order to promote Cloud Migrator?

Andy Mandy said...

I don't like to answer this kind of provocative comment, as it requires us to give excuses. But for the sake of the community we will give you the answer.
1. Cloud Migrator has been designed long before we learned about Glacier and the main purpose it to migrate from other cloud storage to S3, not from S3 to Glacier
2. We added Glacier support to meet the demand as many customers want to be able to migrate from S3 to Glacier, sorry if we insult you with that move.
3. Once S3 will introduce the life cycle policy we will add it to CloudBerry Explorer freeware as we do with any other single feature that S3 introduces.

Anonymous said...

forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=104031

"We will also be releasing an API that enables you to move data from Glacier to S3 in the future. When we do, we will charge retrieval fees for moving the data from Glacier to S3."

Hopefully, that means you can transfer data on request and not just some "data lifecycle" policy.

Kevin I said...

Is there any chance this will make it into the WHS2011 plugin?

Andy Mandy said...

It is in WHS plug-in for a long time now