Amazon Glacier vs restic: What are the differences?

What is Amazon Glacier? Low-cost storage service that provides secure and durable storage for data archiving and backup. In order to keep costs low, Amazon Glacier is optimized for data that is infrequently accessed and for which retrieval times of several hours are suitable. With Amazon Glacier, customers can reliably store large or small amounts of data for as little as $0.01 per gigabyte per month, a significant savings compared to on-premises solutions.

What is restic? A backup program that is fast, efficient and secure. It is a backup program that is fast, efficient and secure. It uses cryptography to guarantee the confidentiality and integrity of your data.

Amazon Glacier and restic belong to "Data Backup" category of the tech stack.

Some of the features offered by Amazon Glacier are:

• Low cost – Amazon Glacier is an extremely low-cost, pay-as-you-go storage service that can cost as little as $0.01 per gigabyte per month.
• You store data in Amazon Glacier as archives. An archive can represent a single file or you may choose to combine several files to be uploaded as a single archive. Retrieving archives from Amazon Glacier requires the initiation of a job. Jobs typically complete in 3 to 5 hours. You organize your archives in vaults.
• Secure – Amazon Glacier supports secure transfer of your data over Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and automatically stores data encrypted at rest using Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) 256, a secure symmetric-key encryption standard using 256-bit encryption keys.

On the other hand, restic provides the following key features:

• Secure
• Efficient
• Free

restic is an open source tool with 8.48K GitHub stars and 595 GitHub forks. Here's a link to restic's open source repository on GitHub.