1. Amazon Web Services Launches Glacier Archive Cloud Storage

    Amazon Web Services Launches Glacier Archive Cloud Storage

    August 21, 2012 -- Cloud services provider Amazon announced on Tuesday that it has launched Glacier archive cloud storage. The hardware-agnostic service aims to replace tape-based archival storage. Glacier is priced lower than Amazon S3, at $0.01 per gigabyte, per month, and like other Amazon services it is pay as you go.

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