Use CreateVault with an Amazon SDK or CLI - Amazon S3 Glacier
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Use CreateVault with an Amazon SDK or CLI

The following code examples show how to use CreateVault.

Action examples are code excerpts from larger programs and must be run in context. You can see this action in context in the following code example:

.NET
Amazon SDK for .NET
Note

There's more on GitHub. Find the complete example and learn how to set up and run in the Amazon Code Examples Repository.

/// <summary> /// Create an Amazon S3 Glacier vault. /// </summary> /// <param name="vaultName">The name of the vault to create.</param> /// <returns>A Boolean value indicating the success of the action.</returns> public async Task<bool> CreateVaultAsync(string vaultName) { var request = new CreateVaultRequest { // Setting the AccountId to "-" means that // the account associated with the current // account will be used. AccountId = "-", VaultName = vaultName, }; var response = await _glacierService.CreateVaultAsync(request); Console.WriteLine($"Created {vaultName} at: {response.Location}"); return response.HttpStatusCode == HttpStatusCode.Created; }
  • For API details, see CreateVault in Amazon SDK for .NET API Reference.

CLI
Amazon CLI

The following command creates a new vault named my-vault:

aws glacier create-vault --vault-name my-vault --account-id -

Amazon Glacier requires an account ID argument when performing operations, but you can use a hyphen to specify the in-use account.

  • For API details, see CreateVault in Amazon CLI Command Reference.

Java
SDK for Java 2.x
Note

There's more on GitHub. Find the complete example and learn how to set up and run in the Amazon Code Examples Repository.

import software.amazon.awssdk.regions.Region; import software.amazon.awssdk.services.glacier.GlacierClient; import software.amazon.awssdk.services.glacier.model.CreateVaultRequest; import software.amazon.awssdk.services.glacier.model.CreateVaultResponse; import software.amazon.awssdk.services.glacier.model.GlacierException; /** * Before running this Java V2 code example, set up your development * environment, including your credentials. * * For more information, see the following documentation topic: * * https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-java/latest/developer-guide/get-started.html */ public class CreateVault { public static void main(String[] args) { final String usage = """ Usage: <vaultName> Where: vaultName - The name of the vault to create. """; if (args.length != 1) { System.out.println(usage); System.exit(1); } String vaultName = args[0]; GlacierClient glacier = GlacierClient.builder() .region(Region.US_EAST_1) .build(); createGlacierVault(glacier, vaultName); glacier.close(); } public static void createGlacierVault(GlacierClient glacier, String vaultName) { try { CreateVaultRequest vaultRequest = CreateVaultRequest.builder() .vaultName(vaultName) .build(); CreateVaultResponse createVaultResult = glacier.createVault(vaultRequest); System.out.println("The URI of the new vault is " + createVaultResult.location()); } catch (GlacierException e) { System.err.println(e.awsErrorDetails().errorMessage()); System.exit(1); } } }
  • For API details, see CreateVault in Amazon SDK for Java 2.x API Reference.

JavaScript
SDK for JavaScript (v3)
Note

There's more on GitHub. Find the complete example and learn how to set up and run in the Amazon Code Examples Repository.

Create the client.

const { GlacierClient } = require("@aws-sdk/client-glacier"); // Set the AWS Region. const REGION = "REGION"; //Set the Redshift Service Object const glacierClient = new GlacierClient({ region: REGION }); export { glacierClient };

Create the vault.

// Load the SDK for JavaScript import { CreateVaultCommand } from "@aws-sdk/client-glacier"; import { glacierClient } from "./libs/glacierClient.js"; // Set the parameters const vaultname = "VAULT_NAME"; // VAULT_NAME const params = { vaultName: vaultname }; const run = async () => { try { const data = await glacierClient.send(new CreateVaultCommand(params)); console.log("Success, vault created!"); return data; // For unit tests. } catch (err) { console.log("Error"); } }; run();
SDK for JavaScript (v2)
Note

There's more on GitHub. Find the complete example and learn how to set up and run in the Amazon Code Examples Repository.

// Load the SDK for JavaScript var AWS = require("aws-sdk"); // Set the region AWS.config.update({ region: "REGION" }); // Create a new service object var glacier = new AWS.Glacier({ apiVersion: "2012-06-01" }); // Call Glacier to create the vault glacier.createVault({ vaultName: "YOUR_VAULT_NAME" }, function (err) { if (!err) { console.log("Created vault!"); } });
PowerShell
Tools for PowerShell

Example 1: Creates a new vault for the user's account. As no value was supplied to the -AccountId parameter the cmdlets uses a default of "-" indicating the current account.

New-GLCVault -VaultName myvault

Output:

/01234567812/vaults/myvault
  • For API details, see CreateVault in Amazon Tools for PowerShell Cmdlet Reference.

Python
SDK for Python (Boto3)
Note

There's more on GitHub. Find the complete example and learn how to set up and run in the Amazon Code Examples Repository.

class GlacierWrapper: """Encapsulates Amazon S3 Glacier API operations.""" def __init__(self, glacier_resource): """ :param glacier_resource: A Boto3 Amazon S3 Glacier resource. """ self.glacier_resource = glacier_resource def create_vault(self, vault_name): """ Creates a vault. :param vault_name: The name to give the vault. :return: The newly created vault. """ try: vault = self.glacier_resource.create_vault(vaultName=vault_name) logger.info("Created vault %s.", vault_name) except ClientError: logger.exception("Couldn't create vault %s.", vault_name) raise else: return vault
  • For API details, see CreateVault in Amazon SDK for Python (Boto3) API Reference.

For a complete list of Amazon SDK developer guides and code examples, see Using S3 Glacier with an Amazon SDK. This topic also includes information about getting started and details about previous SDK versions.