Downloading an Archive in S3 Glacier - Amazon S3 Glacier
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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 and Storage classes for archiving objects in the Amazon S3 User Guide.

Downloading an Archive in S3 Glacier

Amazon S3 Glacier provides a management console, which you can use to create and delete vaults. However, you cannot download archives from S3 Glacier by using the management console. To download data, such as photos, videos, and other documents, you must either use the Amazon Command Line Interface (Amazon CLI) or write code to make requests, by using either the REST API directly or by using the Amazon SDKs.

For information about using S3 Glacier with the Amazon CLI, see the Amazon CLI Reference for S3 Glacier. To install the Amazon CLI, see Amazon Command Line Interface. The following topics describe how to download archives to S3 Glacier by using the Amazon SDK for Java, the Amazon SDK for .NET, and the Amazon S3 Glacier REST API.

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