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/**
 * <p>
 * Amazon Glacier is a storage solution for "cold data."
 * </p>
 * <p>
 * Amazon Glacier is an extremely low-cost storage service that provides secure, durable, and easy-to-use storage for
 * data backup and archival. With Amazon Glacier, customers can store their data cost effectively for months, years, or
 * decades. Amazon Glacier also 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 and recovery, or time-consuming hardware migrations.
 * </p>
 * <p>
 * Amazon Glacier is a great storage choice when low storage cost is paramount, your data is rarely retrieved, and
 * retrieval latency of several hours is acceptable. If your application requires fast or frequent access to your data,
 * consider using Amazon S3. For more information, see <a href="http://aws.amazon.com/s3/">Amazon Simple Storage Service
 * (Amazon S3)</a>.
 * </p>
 * <p>
 * You can store any kind of data in any format. There is no maximum limit on the total amount of data you can store in
 * Amazon Glacier.
 * </p>
 * <p>
 * If you are a first-time user of Amazon Glacier, we recommend that you begin by reading the following sections in the
 * <i>Amazon Glacier Developer Guide</i>:
 * </p>
 * <ul>
 * <li>
 * <p>
 * <a href="http://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonglacier/latest/dev/introduction.html">What is Amazon Glacier</a> - This
 * section of the Developer Guide describes the underlying data model, the operations it supports, and the AWS SDKs that
 * you can use to interact with the service.
 * </p>
 * </li>
 * <li>
 * <p>
 * <a href="http://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonglacier/latest/dev/amazon-glacier-getting-started.html">Getting Started
 * with Amazon Glacier</a> - The Getting Started section walks you through the process of creating a vault, uploading
 * archives, creating jobs to download archives, retrieving the job output, and deleting archives.
 * </p>
 * </li>
 * </ul>
 */
package com.amazonaws.services.glacier;