Downloading an Archive by Using the REST API - Amazon S3 Glacier
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Downloading an Archive by Using the REST API

To download an archive by using the REST API

Downloading an archive is a two-step process.

  1. Initiate a job of the archive-retrieval type. For more information, see Initiate Job (POST jobs).

  2. After the job is completed, download the archive data. For more information, see Get Job Output (GET output).