> The previous model, if you made requests too rapidly, you might be hit with thousands of dollars of bills for relatively small data retrievals -- very easy to make a very expensive bug.
Glacier has supported for something like 18 months now, the ability to put a policy on your vault that capped your maximum retrieval cost. Whenever your request would cause you to exceed that limit, it would get throttle response that the SDK handles happily. I've used it when I needed to retrieve a whole bunch of data and wanted to do it faster than the free tier supported. I set it at $5 and just left the retrieval running.
Glacier has supported for something like 18 months now, the ability to put a policy on your vault that capped your maximum retrieval cost. Whenever your request would cause you to exceed that limit, it would get throttle response that the SDK handles happily. I've used it when I needed to retrieve a whole bunch of data and wanted to do it faster than the free tier supported. I set it at $5 and just left the retrieval running.