Amazon Glacier is a cheap massive cloud storage solution that is mostly suitable for storing cold data - data that are rarely accessed. The price is fair: $4/TB/month. However, it's not like Dropbox or Googld Drive that has nice client programs that you can simply drag and drop the files to be stored. Instead, you'll have to work with their APIs to upload you files. In this post, I'll explain the basics about how to upload the files and also how to query the inventory.

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