If you're new to archival storage in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), we recommend that you start by
learning more about the S3 Glacier storage classes in Amazon S3, S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval, S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval, and S3 Glacier Deep Archive. For more information, see S3 Glacier storage classes
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.
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Initiate a job of the
archive-retrieval
type. For more information, see Initiate Job (POST jobs). -
After the job is completed, download the archive data. For more information, see Get Job Output (GET output).