Delete an Archive in S3 Glacier by Using the Amazon CLI

Download and configure the Amazon CLI. For instructions, see the following topics in the Amazon Command Line Interface User Guide:

Installing the Amazon Command Line Interface

Configuring the Amazon Command Line Interface

Verify your Amazon CLI setup by entering the following commands at the command prompt. These commands don't provide credentials explicitly, so the credentials of the default profile are used.

Use the initiate-job command to start an inventory retrieval job. For more information on the initiate-job command, see Initiate Job.

aws glacier initiate-job --vault-name awsexamplevault --account-id 111122223333 --job-parameters "{\"Type\": \"inventory-retrieval\"}"

Expected output:

{
    "location": "/111122223333/vaults/awsexamplevault/jobs/*** jobid ***", 
    "jobId": "*** jobid ***"
}				

Use the describe-job command to check the status of the previous retrieval job. For more information on the describe-job command, see Describe Job.

aws glacier describe-job --vault-name awsexamplevault --account-id 111122223333 --job-id *** jobid ***

Expected output:

{
    "InventoryRetrievalParameters": {
        "Format": "JSON"
    }, 
    "VaultARN": "*** vault arn ***", 
    "Completed": false, 
    "JobId": "*** jobid ***", 
    "Action": "InventoryRetrieval", 
    "CreationDate": "*** job creation date ***", 
    "StatusCode": "InProgress"
}						

Wait for the job to be completed.

You must wait until the job output is ready for you to download. If you set a notification configuration on the vault or specified an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic when you initiated the job, S3 Glacier sends a message to the topic after it completes the job.

You can set notification configuration for specific events on the vault. For more information, see Configuring Vault Notifications in Amazon S3 Glacier. S3 Glacier sends a message to the specified Amazon SNS topic anytime the specific event occurs.

When the job is complete, use the get-job-output command to download the retrieval job to the file output.json. For more information on the get-job-output command, see Get Job Output.

aws glacier get-job-output --vault-name awsexamplevault --account-id 111122223333 --job-id *** jobid *** output.json

This command produces a file with the following fields.

{
"VaultARN":"arn:aws:glacier:region:111122223333:vaults/awsexamplevault",
"InventoryDate":""*** job completion date ***"",
"ArchiveList":[{
{"ArchiveId":""*** archiveid ***"",
"ArchiveDescription":"*** archive description (if set) ***",
"CreationDate":""*** archive creation date ***"",
"Size":""*** archive size (in bytes) ***"",
"SHA256TreeHash":"*** archive hash ***"
}],
"ArchiveId": 123456789

}						

Use the delete-archive command to delete each archive from a vault until none remain.

aws glacier delete-archive --vault-name awsexamplevault --account-id 111122223333 --archive-id="*** archiveid ***"