Cold storage — Glacier, tape — has to physically retrieve and thaw old data before you can read a single byte. North Star never lets it go cold. Pick an archived record and watch the race.
No restore jobs, no retrieval fees, no “come back in four hours.” Cold is just data you haven’t asked about yet.
The cold tier answers live. Exact answers over everything you’ve ever kept — even the oldest and coldest — with no restore job and no hours‑long wait. Keep it forever; reach it in milliseconds.
You clicked a record here. In practice, your own Claude, GPT, or Gemini drives it in plain English — it writes the instruction, North Star carries it out, and your data never reaches the model.
Every record you’ve ever kept, reachable and answerable the instant you ask — the ten‑year‑old one as fast as today’s.