JFrog Smart Archiving

The Immutable Archive for an Audit Ready, Cost-Optimized, Single System of Record

End-of-life governance for software artifacts that helps you meet retention requirements while preserving the performance of your software delivery system in the AI era.

Archiving as a Service

 JFrog maintains your archive so you don’t have to

Policy Driven Automation

Create automated policies validated with dry runs

Maintain Context

Easily restore artifacts with complete metatada intact

 

THE CHALLENGE

Artifact Debt Is a Growing Liability

AI-driven development generates artifacts faster than teams can manage them. Bloated repositories slow builds, inflate storage costs, and expand your security risk surface with every dormant, unpatched release.

Regulations require full provenance including metadata, attestations, and permissions, retained and auditable for a decade or more. Use of ad hoc approaches can’t possibly keep pace.

THE SOLUTION

Full End-of-Life Governance

Frog Smart Archiving automatically moves end-of-life releases into costoptimized long-term storage with full metadata, attestations, and build evidence intact for one-click restore.

The result is a lean, performant operational instance, airtight audit readiness, and a clean system of record that you can trust, even when using automated AI tools.

THE RESULT

A Proven Track Record of Happy Customers

Powering 7,000+ Development Teams | 80% of the Fortune 100

“It’s an excellent solution, and it’s exactly what we were looking for from a compliance standpoint, but also from a cost standpoint.”

Product Manager, DevSecOpsTools,
Fortune 500 Automotive Manufacturer

 

 


Create a Comprehensive Retention Policy

Keep what matters – in the right place – and remove the rest seamlessly

  • Pair archiving and cleanup policies for a full end-to-end retention solution
  • Automate policies based on a variety of criteria such as age, usage or version
  • Validate policy impact before enforcement with “dry run” simulations
  • Comply with industry & internal standards based on non-refutable evidence

Features and Benefits

Ensure Regulatory Compliance

  • Automated, policy-driven archiving retains every governed release with full metadata, attestations, and build evidence
  • Meet SOC 2, FedRAMP, FDA 21 CFR Part 11, ISO 27001,
 and DORA mandates without manual tasks
  • Satisfy 10–30 year retention requirements and immutable chain-of-custody laws across all regulated industries
Manage Costs as you Grow

  • Gtay ahead of artifact bloat as AI accelerates output across your organization
  • Archive stale assets to lower-cost storage tiers to reduce expenses
  • Homegrown archiving scripts create a single point of failure. Environment updates, team changes can silently break your retention workflow with no one left to fix it.
Improve System Performance

  • Clean up inactive artifacts to optimize build speeds and maintain responsive search performance
  • Keep your system of record clean so AI agents can operate safely and reliably
  • Scale effortlessly with enterprise-grade support for federation, projects, and more
Simplify Auditing

  • Instantly search every archived artifact with complete development context intact
  • Restore any asset with a single click, without any manual reconstruction
  • All information is captured automatically and available for detailed reports of immutable ready-to-present evidence

 

Why JFrog Smart Archiving

Three Differentiators No Other Solution Can Match

Application Level Intelligence
Moves complete artifacts with full context to minimize storage and maximize performance.

Full Context, One Click Restore
Restore is one click, with a complete audit trail and no reconstruction effort

Flexible Deployment Options
Fully managed by JFrog across SaaS, self-hosted and hybrid environments.

For more information about how you can gain all the benefits of JFrog Smart Archiving, feel free to take an online tour, schedule a personalized demo or visit our help center at your convenience.

 

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