[AusNOG] Offsite Storage

[Paul Gear]

Here's the reference claiming they use optical disks:
http://storagemojo.com/2014/04/25/amazons-glacier-secret-bdxl/

Good read regardless of whether you agree with the conclusion.  :-)

On 26/11/14 16:37, Nick Stallman wrote:
> Nothing official, however its fairly well assumed.
>
> The Register says they are tape.
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/02/28/spectra_h1_fy2013/
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/10/18/ipexpo_2012/
>
> Tape has far more capacity than bluray so BR seems unlikely.
>
> In any case it is a tape-like medium with the same pros/cons as tape.
>
> On 26/11/14 17:28, Matt Palmer wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 04:15:24PM +1100, Nick Stallman wrote:
>>> Glacier is tape storage (hence the retrieval delays/limits and
>>> price) so clearly AWS still thinks its a player.
>> Got an authoritative cite for that?  As far as I know, AWS has never
>> made a
>> statement as to what it is using, however the most educated-sounding
>> guess
>> I've read is that they're using some sort of write-once,
>> archival-quality
>> BluRay disks (based on the fact that some non-trivial percentage of the
>> world's BR production gets bought by Amazon).