Amazon Intros Intelligent Tiering For S3 Storage To Optimize Cost

Amazon on Monday unveiled a new automated cloud storage tiering capability for handling files that have not been accessed for 30 days.Termed S3 Intelligent-Tiering, it allows users to get the benefit of lower-cost long-term storage without having an in-depth understanding of the data's access patterns, wrote Jeff Barr, chief evangelist for Amazon Web Services in a blog post.The new tiering capability was unveiled at the start of the AWS re:Invent conference being held this week in Las Vegas. Until Monday, AWS offered four classes of service: Standard for frequently accessed data; Standard-IA for long-lived, infrequently accessed data; One Zone-IA for long-lived, infrequently accessed non-critical data; and Glacier for long-lived, infrequent accessed, archived critical data.