# Accessing archived data on Amazon S3
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Amazon S3 provides a number of tools for reading the contents of the data. However, depending on the storage class, a few preprocessing steps might be required. This section includes the following:
+ Reading archived S3 objects with Standard storage class by using AWS Glue
+ Reading an archived S3 object with the S3 Glacier storage classes by using S3 Batch Operations
+ Best practices