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tl;dr: Glacier-the-service/“Glacier direct APIs” have been untouched for years (read: probably not going to get new features), Glacier-the-storage-class looks like the new replacement. I don’t think there’s any reasons to put new data into Glacier vaults, using the storage class on objects in a S3 bucket is a better experience Because it’s AWS, Glacier-the-service will continue to be supported indefinitely. This post is an expanded version of my post on reddit, which I wrote after trying and failing to switch my photo backup (in a Glacier Vault) to use Glacier Deep Archive....