About Amazon Glacier and FastGlacier

Amazon Glacier is an extremely low-cost storage service ($0.01 per Gb per month) that provides secure and durable storage for data archiving and backup. It is optimized for data that is infrequently accessed and for which retrieval times of several hours are suitable.

In order to effectively use Amazon Glacier you need a client software.

This is where FastGlacier comes into play. Providing you an easy to use graphical interface to Amazon Glacier, it allows you to start using Amazon Glacier immediately, saving you time and money.

Getting Started with FastGlacier

• FastGlacier - First Run
• FastGlacier - Interface Overview

Working with Amazon Glacier

• Working with Amazon Glacier Vaults
• How to upload and download files to and from Amazon Glacier
• How to include or exclude files/folders to/from uploading (working with filters)
• How to create new folders in Amazon Glacier Vault
• How to synchronize the contents of a local folder with Amazon Glacier

Working with Multiple Amazon Glacier Accounts

• How to add a new Amazon Glacier account
• How to switch between Amazon Glacier accounts
• How to edit or delete Amazon Glacier account

Access Control

• How to share the vault with another Glacier User.
• External Vaults. How to connect to the Vault shared by another user.

Miscellaneous Help Articles

• How to hide unused Amazon Glacier Regions
• How to configure client-side Compression and Encryption
• How to find and delete duplicate files
• Smart Data Retrieval from Amazon Glacier
• Crenentials Encryption. How to protect your Access Keys from unauthorized use
• Command line Uploader
• Command line Folder Sync Tool
• File Metadata Format used by FastGlacier