Delete an Amazon S3 Glacier archive using an Amazon SDK - Amazon S3 Glacier
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Delete an Amazon S3 Glacier archive using an Amazon SDK

The following code examples show how to delete an Amazon S3 Glacier archive.

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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.

public static void deleteGlacierArchive(GlacierClient glacier, String vaultName, String accountId, String archiveId) { try { DeleteArchiveRequest delArcRequest = DeleteArchiveRequest.builder() .vaultName(vaultName) .accountId(accountId) .archiveId(archiveId) .build(); glacier.deleteArchive(delArcRequest); System.out.println("The vault was deleted!"); } catch(GlacierException e) { System.err.println(e.awsErrorDetails().errorMessage()); System.exit(1); } }
  • For API details, see DeleteArchive in Amazon SDK for Java 2.x API 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 @staticmethod def delete_archive(archive): """ Deletes an archive from a vault. :param archive: The archive to delete. """ try: archive.delete() logger.info( "Deleted archive %s from vault %s.", archive.id, archive.vault_name ) except ClientError: logger.exception("Couldn't delete archive %s.", archive.id) raise
  • For API details, see DeleteArchive 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.