Patent attributes
A tiering service that supports multiple cold tier quality of service (QoS) policies includes a configuration manager that receives a specification for one or more QoS parameters for a cold tier and reserves resources of a provider network to implement the cold tier in accordance with the specified QoS parameters. The QoS parameters may specify one of a plurality of supported cold tier access level policies for the cold tier. Also other QoS parameters may be specified. The cold tier access level policies may specify combinations of local and/or remote resources to be used for the cold tier. In some embodiments, a client may specify or modify cold tier QoS policies in order to perform different tasks. Also a client may modify the specified QoS policies for the cold tier after completion of the tasks or to perform other tasks.
