@kdfrawg As with anything Amazon, S3 (Glacier) is "do it yourself." It's basically meant for data that doesn't change often and doesn't necessarily need to be accessed regularly. The pricing is designed to reflect this use case.
When you request a restore of specific files, they are not immediately available. Amazon will copy the files over to a regular S3 bucket in several hours. Then you can copy the data wherever it needs to go.
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