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Earlier today Amazon Web Services announced Glacier, a low-cost, cloud-hosted, cold storage solution. Cold storage is a class of storage that is discussed infrequently and yet it is by far the largest storage class of them all. Ironically, the storage we usually talk about and the storage Ive worked on for most of my life is the high-IOPS rate storage supporting mission critical databases. These systems today are best hosted on NAND flash and Ive been talking recently about two AWS solutions to address this storage class:   I/O Performance (no longer) Sucks in the Cloud EBS Provisioned IOPS & Storage Optimized EC2 Instance Types   Cold storage is different.

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