# Moving archived table data to Amazon S3
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Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is the natural target for archived data. It provides 99.999999999 percent durability, and it's less expensive than database storage.

Furthermore, Amazon S3 has built-in storage classes that are priced based on the retrieval pattern. You have the option of transitioning the offloaded S3 objects into a lower-priced storage tier based on the data's retrieval frequency. For more information about storage classes and pricing, see the [Amazon S3 documentation](https://aws.amazon.com/s3/storage-classes/).

For applications that use fleets of MySQL instances, offloading into Amazon S3 would mean saving money on data that meets the following criteria:
+ Must be archived from the database to increase efficiency
+ Isn’t required immediately, or is sparingly needed for any business process
+ Must be retained for a long term because of audit requirements

You can archive MySQL data in the following ways:
+ Export data from a live Amazon Aurora cluster
+ Export data by using `SELECT INTO OUTFILE S3`
+ Export data by using AWS Glue