Understanding Cold Storage: Best Practices for Google Nearline and Amazon Glacier

Originally written in August 2015, this article discussed the the two major players in cold storage architecture, Google Nearline and Amazon Glacier. Both the advantages and disadvantages of each solution were pointed out.
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