# What Is Amazon S3 Glacier?

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## Data Model

* **Note**\
  S3 Glacier offers a cold-storage data-archival solution. If your application needs a storage solution that requires real-time data retrieval, you might consider using Amazon S3. For more information, see [Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)](http://aws.amazon.com/s3).