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		zhoutong on Aug 21, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Amazon Glacier AFAIK the keys are managed by Amazon, just like S3. It's more for compliance reasons rather than real security. Encryption still has to be done yourself to protect the data.

guan on Aug 21, 2012 [–]

It does protect you against situations where Amazon loses disks or tapes, or disposes of them improperly, or they are stolen.

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