We have lots of files in S3 (>1B), I'd like to compress those to reduce storage costs. What would be a simple and efficient way to do this?
Thank you
Alex
1 Answers
Amazon S3 cannot compress your data.
You would need to write a program to run on an Amazon EC2 instance that would:
- Download the objects
- Compress them
- Upload the files back to S3
An alternative is to use Storage Classes:
- If the data is infrequently accessed, use S3 Standard - Infrequent Access -- this is available immediately and is cheaper as long as data is accessed less than once per month
- Glacier is substantially cheaper but takes some time to restore (speed of restore is related to cost)
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