Amazon’s Glacier secret: BDXL by Robin Harris | Friday, April 25, 2014 | Backup, Cloud computing & storage | 24 comments Remember when Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced Glacier, a data archiving service, almost 2 years ago? Long-term, slow-retrieval (3-5 hours) storage for 1¢/GB while maintaining several copies across geographies. Pretty amazing. Less amazing now that disk prices are reaching 3