Document History - Amazon S3 Glacier
Earlier Updates
Services or capabilities described in Amazon Web Services documentation might vary by Region. To see the differences applicable to the China Regions, see Getting Started with Amazon Web Services in China (PDF).

This page is only for existing customers of the S3 Glacier service using Vaults and the original REST API from 2012.

If you're looking for archival storage solutions we suggest using the S3 Glacier storage classes in Amazon S3, S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval, S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval, and S3 Glacier Deep Archive. To learn more about these storage options, see S3 Glacier storage classes and Long-term data storage using S3 Glacier storage classes in the Amazon S3 User Guide. These storage classes use the Amazon S3 API, are available in all regions, and can be managed within the Amazon S3 console. They offer features like Storage Cost Analysis, Storage Lens, advanced optional encryption features, and more.

Document History

  • Current product version: 2012-06-01

The following table describes the important changes in each release of the Amazon S3 Glacier Developer Guide from July 5, 2018, onward. For notification about updates to this documentation, you can subscribe to an RSS feed.

ChangeDescriptionDate

Improved start times for Standard restore requests made through S3 Batch Operations

Standard retrievals for restore requests that are made through S3 Batch Operations now can start within minutes. For more information, see Archive Retrieval Options.

August 9, 2023

Amazon S3 supports higher restore request rates for S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval and S3 Glacier Deep Archive

Amazon S3 supports restore requests at a rate of up to 1,000 transactions per second, per Amazon Web Services account for the S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval and S3 Glacier Deep Archive storage classes.

November 15, 2022

Amazon Glacier name change

Amazon Glacier is now Amazon S3 Glacier to better reflect Glacier's integration with Amazon S3.

November 20, 2018

Updates now available over RSS

You can now subscribe to an RSS feed to receive notifications about updates to the Amazon S3 Glacier Developer Guide guide.

July 5, 2018

Earlier Updates

The following table describes the important changes in each release of the Amazon S3 Glacier Developer Guide before July 5, 2018.

Change Description Release Date

Expedited and Bulk Data Retrievals

S3 Glacier now supports Expedited and Bulk data retrievals in addition to Standard retrievals. For more information, see Archive Retrieval Options.

November 21, 2016

Vault Lock

S3 Glacier now supports Vault Lock, which allows you to easily deploy and enforce compliance controls on individual S3 Glacier vaults with a Vault Lock policy. For more information, see S3 Glacier Vault Lock and Vault Lock Policies.

July 8, 2015

Vault tagging

S3 Glacier now allows you to tag your S3 Glacier vaults for easier resource and cost management. Tags are labels that you can define and associate with your vaults, and using tags adds filtering capabilities to operations such as Amazon cost reports. For more information, see Tagging Amazon S3 Glacier Resources and Tagging Your S3 Glacier Vaults.

June 22, 2015

Vault access policies

S3 Glacier now supports managing access to your individual S3 Glacier vaults by using vault access policies. You can now define an access policy directly on a vault, making it easier to grant vault access to users and business groups internal to your organization, as well as to your external business partners. For more information, see Vault Access Policies.

April 27, 2015

Data retrieval policies and audit logging

S3 Glacier now supports data retrieval policies and audit logging. Data retrieval policies allow you to easily set data retrieval limits and simplify data retrieval cost management. You can define your own data retrieval limits with a few clicks in the Amazon Web Services Management Console or by using the S3 Glacier API. For more information, see S3 Glacier Data Retrieval Policies.

In addition, S3 Glacier now supports audit logging with Amazon CloudTrail, which records S3 Glacier API calls for your account and delivers the log files to an Amazon S3 bucket that you specify. For more information, see Logging Amazon S3 Glacier API Calls with Amazon CloudTrail.

December 11, 2014

Updates to Java samples

Updated the Java code examples in this guide that use the Amazon SDK for Java.

June 27, 2014

Limiting vault inventory retrieval

You can now limit the number of vault inventory items retrieved by filtering on the archive creation date or by setting a limit. For more information about limiting inventory retrieval, see Range Inventory Retrieval in the Initiate Job (POST jobs) topic.

December 31, 2013

Removed outdated URLs

Removed the URLs that pointed to the old security credentials page from code examples.

July 26, 2013

Support for range retrievals

S3 Glacier now supports retrieval of specific ranges of your archives. You can initiate a job requesting S3 Glacier to prepare an entire archive or a portion of the archive for subsequent download. When an archive is very large, you may find it cost effective to initiate several sequential jobs to prepare your archive.

For more information, see Downloading an Archive in S3 Glacier.

November 13, 2012

New Guide

This is the first release of the Amazon S3 Glacier Developer Guide.

August 20, 2012