Amazon Glacier examples using Amazon CLI

The following command deletes an in-progress multipart upload to a vault named my-vault:

aws glacier abort-multipart-upload --account-id - --vault-name my-vault --upload-id 19gaRezEXAMPLES6Ry5YYdqthHOC_kGRCT03L9yetr220UmPtBYKk-OssZtLqyFu7sY1_lR7vgFuJV6NtcV5zpsJ

This command does not produce any output. Amazon Glacier requires an account ID argument when performing operations, but you can use a hyphen to specify the in-use account. The upload ID is returned by the aws glacier initiate-multipart-upload command and can also be obtained by using aws glacier list-multipart-uploads.

For more information on multipart uploads to Amazon Glacier using the Amazon CLI, see Using Amazon Glacier in the Amazon CLI User Guide.

To abort an in-progress vault lock process

The following abort-vault-lock example deletes a vault lock policy from the specified vault and resets the lock state of the vault lock to unlocked.

aws glacier abort-vault-lock \
    --account-id - \
    --vault-name MyVaultName

This command produces no output.

For more information, see Abort Vault Lock (DELETE lock-policy) in the Amazon Glacier API Developer Guide.

The following command adds two tags to a vault named my-vault:

aws glacier add-tags-to-vault --account-id - --vault-name my-vault --tags id=1234,date=july2015

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

The following command completes multipart upload for a 3 MiB archive:

aws glacier complete-multipart-upload --archive-size 3145728 --checksum 9628195fcdbcbbe76cdde456d4646fa7de5f219fb39823836d81f0cc0e18aa67 --upload-id 19gaRezEXAMPLES6Ry5YYdqthHOC_kGRCT03L9yetr220UmPtBYKk-OssZtLqyFu7sY1_lR7vgFuJV6NtcV5zpsJ --account-id - --vault-name my-vault

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

The upload ID is returned by the aws glacier initiate-multipart-upload command and can also be obtained by using aws glacier list-multipart-uploads. The checksum parameter takes a SHA-256 tree hash of the archive in hexadecimal.

For more information on multipart uploads to Amazon Glacier using the Amazon CLI, including instructions on calculating a tree hash, see Using Amazon Glacier in the Amazon CLI User Guide.

To complete an in-progress vault lock process

The following complete-vault-lock example completes the in-progress locking progress for the specified vault and sets the lock state of the vault lock to Locked. You get the value for the lock-id parameter when you run initiate-lock-process.

aws glacier complete-vault-lock \
    --account-id - \
    --vault-name MyVaultName \
    --lock-id 9QZgEXAMPLEPhvL6xEXAMPLE

This command produces no output.

For more information, see Complete Vault Lock (POST lockId) in the Amazon Glacier API Developer Guide.

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.

To delete an archive from a vault

The following delete-archive example removes the specified archive from example_vault.

aws glacier delete-archive \
    --account-id 111122223333  \
    --vault-name example_vault \
    --archive-id Sc0u9ZP8yaWkmh-XGlIvAVprtLhaLCGnNwNl5I5x9HqPIkX5mjc0DrId3Ln-Gi_k2HzmlIDZUz117KSdVMdMXLuFWi9PJUitxWO73edQ43eTlMWkH0pd9zVSAuV_XXZBVhKhyGhJ7w

This command produces no output.

To remove the access policy of a vault

The following delete-vault-access-policy example removes the access policy for the specified vault.

aws glacier delete-vault-access-policy \
    --account-id 111122223333 \
    --vault-name example_vault

This command produces no output.

To remove the SNS notifications for a vault

The following delete-vault-notifications example removes notifications sent by Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) for the specified vault.

aws glacier delete-vault-notifications \
    --account-id 111122223333 \
    --vault-name example_vault

This command produces no output.

The following command deletes a vault named my-vault:

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

This command does not produce any output. Amazon Glacier requires an account ID argument when performing operations, but you can use a hyphen to specify the in-use account.

The following command retrieves information about an inventory retrieval job on a vault named my-vault:

aws glacier describe-job --account-id - --vault-name my-vault --job-id zbxcm3Z_3z5UkoroF7SuZKrxgGoDc3RloGduS7Eg-RO47Yc6FxsdGBgf_Q2DK5Ejh18CnTS5XW4_XqlNHS61dsO4CnMW

Output:

{
    "InventoryRetrievalParameters": {
        "Format": "JSON"
    },
    "VaultARN": "arn:aws:glacier:us-west-2:0123456789012:vaults/my-vault",
    "Completed": false,
    "JobId": "zbxcm3Z_3z5UkoroF7SuZKrxgGoDc3RloGduS7Eg-RO47Yc6FxsdGBgf_Q2DK5Ejh18CnTS5XW4_XqlNHS61dsO4CnMW",
    "Action": "InventoryRetrieval",
    "CreationDate": "2015-07-17T20:23:41.616Z",
    "StatusCode": "InProgress"
}

The job ID can be found in the output of aws glacier initiate-job and aws glacier list-jobs. Amazon Glacier requires an account ID argument when performing operations, but you can use a hyphen to specify the in-use account.

The following command retrieves data about a vault named my-vault:

aws glacier describe-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.

The following command gets the data retrieval policy for the in-use account:

aws glacier get-data-retrieval-policy --account-id -

Output:

{
    "Policy": {
        "Rules": [
            {
                "BytesPerHour": 10737418240,
                "Strategy": "BytesPerHour"
            }
        ]
    }
}

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

The following command saves the output from a vault inventory job to a file in the current directory named output.json:

aws glacier get-job-output --account-id - --vault-name my-vault --job-id zbxcm3Z_3z5UkoroF7SuZKrxgGoDc3RloGduS7Eg-RO47Yc6FxsdGBgf_Q2DK5Ejh18CnTS5XW4_XqlNHS61dsO4CnMW output.json

The job-id is available in the output of aws glacier list-jobs. Note that the output file name is a positional argument that is not prefixed by an option name. Amazon Glacier requires an account ID argument when performing operations, but you can use a hyphen to specify the in-use account.

Output:

{
    "status": 200,
    "acceptRanges": "bytes",
    "contentType": "application/json"
}

output.json:

{"VaultARN":"arn:aws:glacier:us-west-2:0123456789012:vaults/my-vault","InventoryDate":"2015-04-07T00:26:18Z","ArchiveList":[{"ArchiveId":"kKB7ymWJVpPSwhGP6ycSOAekp9ZYe_--zM_mw6k76ZFGEIWQX-ybtRDvc2VkPSDtfKmQrj0IRQLSGsNuDp-AJVlu2ccmDSyDUmZwKbwbpAdGATGDiB3hHO0bjbGehXTcApVud_wyDw","ArchiveDescription":"multipart upload test","CreationDate":"2015-04-06T22:24:34Z","Size":3145728,"SHA256TreeHash":"9628195fcdbcbbe76cdde932d4646fa7de5f219fb39823836d81f0cc0e18aa67"}]}

To retrieve the access policy of a vault

The following get-vault-access-policy example retrieves the access policy for the specified vault.

aws glacier get-vault-access-policy \
    --account-id 111122223333 \
    --vault-name example_vault

Output:

{
    "policy": {
        "Policy": "{\"Version\":\"2012-10-17\",\"Statement\":[{\"Effect\":\"Allow\",\"Principal\":{\"AWS\":\"arn:aws:iam::444455556666:root\"},\"Action\":\"glacier:ListJobs\",\"Resource\":\"arn:aws:glacier:us-east-1:111122223333:vaults/example_vault\"},{\"Effect\":\"Allow\",\"Principal\":{\"AWS\":\"arn:aws:iam::444455556666:root\"},\"Action\":\"glacier:UploadArchive\",\"Resource\":\"arn:aws:glacier:us-east-1:111122223333:vaults/example_vault\"}]}"
    }
}

To get the details of a vault lock

The following get-vault-lock example retrieved the details about the lock for the specified vault.

aws glacier get-vault-lock \
    --account-id - \
    --vault-name MyVaultName

Output:

{
    "Policy": "{\"Version\":\"2012-10-17\",\"Statement\":[{\"Sid\":\"Define-vault-lock\",\"Effect\":\"Deny\",\"Principal\":{\"AWS\":\"arn:aws:iam::999999999999:root\"},\"Action\":\"glacier:DeleteArchive\",\"Resource\":\"arn:aws:glacier:us-west-2:99999999999:vaults/MyVaultName\",\"Condition\":{\"NumericLessThanEquals\":{\"glacier:ArchiveAgeinDays\":\"365\"}}}]}",
    "State": "Locked",
    "CreationDate": "2019-07-29T22:25:28.640Z"
}

For more information, see Get Vault Lock (GET lock-policy) in the Amazon Glacier API Developer Guide.

The following command gets a description of the notification configuration for a vault named my-vault:

aws glacier get-vault-notifications --account-id - --vault-name my-vault

Output:

{
    "vaultNotificationConfig": {
        "Events": [
            "InventoryRetrievalCompleted",
            "ArchiveRetrievalCompleted"
        ],
        "SNSTopic": "arn:aws:sns:us-west-2:0123456789012:my-vault"
    }
}

If no notifications have been configured for the vault, an error is returned. Amazon Glacier requires an account ID argument when performing operations, but you can use a hyphen to specify the in-use account.

The following command initiates a job to get an inventory of the vault my-vault:

aws glacier initiate-job --account-id - --vault-name my-vault --job-parameters '{"Type": "inventory-retrieval"}'

Output:

{
    "location": "/0123456789012/vaults/my-vault/jobs/zbxcm3Z_3z5UkoroF7SuZKrxgGoDc3RloGduS7Eg-RO47Yc6FxsdGBgf_Q2DK5Ejh18CnTS5XW4_XqlNHS61dsO4CnMW",
    "jobId": "zbxcm3Z_3z5UkoroF7SuZKrxgGoDc3RloGduS7Eg-RO47Yc6FxsdGBgf_Q2DK5Ejh18CnTS5XW4_XqlNHS61dsO4CnMW"
}

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

The following command initiates a job to retrieve an archive from the vault my-vault:

aws glacier initiate-job --account-id - --vault-name my-vault --job-parameters file://job-archive-retrieval.json

job-archive-retrieval.json is a JSON file in the local folder that specifies the type of job, archive ID, and some optional parameters:

{
  "Type": "archive-retrieval",
  "ArchiveId": "kKB7ymWJVpPSwhGP6ycSOAekp9ZYe_--zM_mw6k76ZFGEIWQX-ybtRDvc2VkPSDtfKmQrj0IRQLSGsNuDp-AJVlu2ccmDSyDUmZwKbwbpAdGATGDiB3hHO0bjbGehXTcApVud_wyDw",
  "Description": "Retrieve archive on 2015-07-17",
  "SNSTopic": "arn:aws:sns:us-west-2:0123456789012:my-topic"
}

Archive IDs are available in the output of aws glacier upload-archive and aws glacier get-job-output.

Output:

{
    "location": "/011685312445/vaults/mwunderl/jobs/l7IL5-EkXyEY9Ws95fClzIbk2O5uLYaFdAYOi-azsX_Z8V6NH4yERHzars8wTKYQMX6nBDI9cMNHzyZJO59-8N9aHWav",
    "jobId": "l7IL5-EkXy2O5uLYaFdAYOiEY9Ws95fClzIbk-azsX_Z8V6NH4yERHzars8wTKYQMX6nBDI9cMNHzyZJO59-8N9aHWav"
}

See Initiate Job in the Amazon Glacier API Reference for details on the job parameters format.

The following command initiates a multipart upload to a vault named my-vault with a part size of 1 MiB (1024 x 1024 bytes) per file:

aws glacier initiate-multipart-upload --account-id - --part-size 1048576 --vault-name my-vault --archive-description "multipart upload test"

The archive description parameter is optional. Amazon Glacier requires an account ID argument when performing operations, but you can use a hyphen to specify the in-use account.

This command outputs an upload ID when successful. Use the upload ID when uploading each part of your archive with aws glacier upload-multipart-part. For more information on multipart uploads to Amazon Glacier using the Amazon CLI, see Using Amazon Glacier in the Amazon CLI User Guide.

To initiate the vault locking process

The following initiate-vault-lock example installs a vault lock policy on the specified vault and sets the lock state of the vault lock to InProgress. You must complete the process by calling complete-vault-lock within 24 hours to set the state of the vault lock to Locked.

aws glacier initiate-vault-lock \
    --account-id - \
    --vault-name MyVaultName \
    --policy file://vault_lock_policy.json

Contents of vault_lock_policy.json:

{"Policy":"{\"Version\":\"2012-10-17\",\"Statement\":[{\"Sid\":\"Define-vault-lock\",\"Effect\":\"Deny\",\"Principal\":{\"AWS\":\"arn:aws:iam::999999999999:root\"},\"Action\":\"glacier:DeleteArchive\",\"Resource\":\"arn:aws:glacier:us-west-2:999999999999:vaults/examplevault\",\"Condition\":{\"NumericLessThanEquals\":{\"glacier:ArchiveAgeinDays\":\"365\"}}}]}"}

The output is the vault lock ID that you can use to complete the vault lock process.

{
    "lockId": "9QZgEXAMPLEPhvL6xEXAMPLE"
}

For more information, see Initiate Vault Lock (POST lock-policy) in the Amazon Glacier API Developer Guide.

The following command lists in-progress and recently completed jobs for a vault named my-vault:

aws glacier list-jobs --account-id - --vault-name my-vault

Output:

{
    "JobList": [
        {
            "VaultARN": "arn:aws:glacier:us-west-2:0123456789012:vaults/my-vault",
            "RetrievalByteRange": "0-3145727",
            "SNSTopic": "arn:aws:sns:us-west-2:0123456789012:my-vault",
            "Completed": false,
            "SHA256TreeHash": "9628195fcdbcbbe76cdde932d4646fa7de5f219fb39823836d81f0cc0e18aa67",
            "JobId": "l7IL5-EkXyEY9Ws95fClzIbk2O5uLYaFdAYOi-azsX_Z8V6NH4yERHzars8wTKYQMX6nBDI9cMNHzyZJO59-8N9aHWav",
            "ArchiveId": "kKB7ymWJVpPSwhGP6ycSOAekp9ZYe_--zM_mw6k76ZFGEIWQX-ybtRDvc2VkPSDtfKmQrj0IRQLSGsNuDp-AJVlu2ccmDSyDUmZwKbwbpAdGATGDiB3hHO0bjbGehXTcApVud_wyDw",
            "JobDescription": "Retrieve archive on 2015-07-17",
            "ArchiveSizeInBytes": 3145728,
            "Action": "ArchiveRetrieval",
            "ArchiveSHA256TreeHash": "9628195fcdbcbbe76cdde932d4646fa7de5f219fb39823836d81f0cc0e18aa67",
            "CreationDate": "2015-07-17T21:16:13.840Z",
            "StatusCode": "InProgress"
        },
        {
            "InventoryRetrievalParameters": {
                "Format": "JSON"
            },
            "VaultARN": "arn:aws:glacier:us-west-2:0123456789012:vaults/my-vault",
            "Completed": false,
            "JobId": "zbxcm3Z_3z5UkoroF7SuZKrxgGoDc3RloGduS7Eg-RO47Yc6FxsdGBgf_Q2DK5Ejh18CnTS5XW4_XqlNHS61dsO4CnMW",
            "Action": "InventoryRetrieval",
            "CreationDate": "2015-07-17T20:23:41.616Z",
            "StatusCode": ""InProgress""
        }
    ]
}

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

The following command shows all of the in-progress multipart uploads for a vault named my-vault:

aws glacier list-multipart-uploads --account-id - --vault-name my-vault

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

For more information on multipart uploads to Amazon Glacier using the Amazon CLI, see Using Amazon Glacier in the Amazon CLI User Guide.

The following command lists the uploaded parts for a multipart upload to a vault named my-vault:

aws glacier list-parts --account-id - --vault-name my-vault --upload-id "SYZi7qnL-YGqGwAm8Kn3BLP2ElNCvnB-5961R09CSaPmPwkYGHOqeN_nX3-Vhnd2yF0KfB5FkmbnBU9GubbdrCs8ut-D"

Output:

{
    "MultipartUploadId": "SYZi7qnL-YGqGwAm8Kn3BLP2ElNCvnB-5961R09CSaPmPwkYGHOqeN_nX3-Vhnd2yF0KfB5FkmbnBU9GubbdrCs8ut-D",
    "Parts": [
        {
            "RangeInBytes": "0-1048575",
            "SHA256TreeHash": "e1f2a7cd6e047350f69b9f8cfa60fa606fe2f02802097a9a026360a7edc1f553"
        },
        {
            "RangeInBytes": "1048576-2097151",
            "SHA256TreeHash": "43cf3061fb95796aed99a11a6aa3cd8f839eed15e655ab0a597126210636aee6"
        }
    ],
    "VaultARN": "arn:aws:glacier:us-west-2:0123456789012:vaults/my-vault",
    "CreationDate": "2015-07-18T00:05:23.830Z",
    "PartSizeInBytes": 1048576
}

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

For more information on multipart uploads to Amazon Glacier using the Amazon CLI, see Using Amazon Glacier in the Amazon CLI User Guide.

To retrieve the provisioned capacity units

The following list-provisioned-capacity example retrieves details for any provisioned capacity units for the specified account.

aws glacier list-provisioned-capacity \
    --account-id 111122223333

Output:

{
    "ProvisionedCapacityList": [
        {
            "CapacityId": "HpASAuvfRFiVDbOjMfEIcr8K",
            "ExpirationDate": "2020-03-18T19:59:24.000Z",
            "StartDate": "2020-02-18T19:59:24.912Z"
        }
    ]
}

The following command lists the tags applied to a vault named my-vault:

aws glacier list-tags-for-vault --account-id - --vault-name my-vault

Output:

{
    "Tags": {
        "date": "july2015",
        "id": "1234"
    }
}

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

The following command lists the vaults in the default account and region:

aws glacier list-vaults --account-id -

Output:

{
    "VaultList": [
        {
            "SizeInBytes": 3178496,
            "VaultARN": "arn:aws:glacier:us-west-2:0123456789012:vaults/my-vault",
            "LastInventoryDate": "2015-04-07T00:26:19.028Z",
            "VaultName": "my-vault",
            "NumberOfArchives": 1,
            "CreationDate": "2015-04-06T21:23:45.708Z"
        }
    ]
}

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

To purchase a provisioned capacity unit

The following purchase-provisioned-capacity example purchases a provisioned capacity unit.

aws glacier purchase-provisioned-capacity \
    --account-id 111122223333

Output:

{
    "capacityId": "HpASAuvfRFiVDbOjMfEIcr8K"
}

The following command removes a tag with the key date from a vault named my-vault:

aws glacier remove-tags-from-vault --account-id - --vault-name my-vault --tag-keys date

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

The following command configures a data retrieval policy for the in-use account:

aws glacier set-data-retrieval-policy --account-id - --policy file://data-retrieval-policy.json

data-retrieval-policy.json is a JSON file in the current folder that specifies a data retrieval policy:

{
  "Rules":[
     {
         "Strategy":"BytesPerHour",
         "BytesPerHour":10737418240
      }
   ]
}

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

The following command sets the data retrieval policy to FreeTier using inline JSON:

aws glacier set-data-retrieval-policy --account-id - --policy '{"Rules":[{"Strategy":"FreeTier"}]}'

See Set Data Retrieval Policy in the Amazon Glacier API Reference for details on the policy format.

To set the access policy of a vault

The following set-vault-access-policy example attaches a permission policy to the specified vault.

aws glacier set-vault-access-policy \
    --account-id 111122223333 \
    --vault-name example_vault
    --policy '{"Policy": "{\"Version\":\"2012-10-17\",\"Statement\":[{\"Effect\":\"Allow\",\"Principal\":{\"AWS\":\"arn:aws:iam::444455556666:root\"},\"Action\":\"glacier:ListJobs\",\"Resource\":\"arn:aws:glacier:us-east-1:111122223333:vaults/example_vault\"},{\"Effect\":\"Allow\",\"Principal\":{\"AWS\":\"arn:aws:iam::444455556666:root\"},\"Action\":\"glacier:UploadArchive\",\"Resource\":\"arn:aws:glacier:us-east-1:111122223333:vaults/example_vault\"}]}"}'

This command produces no output.

The following command configures SNS notifications for a vault named my-vault:

aws glacier set-vault-notifications --account-id - --vault-name my-vault --vault-notification-config file://notificationconfig.json

notificationconfig.json is a JSON file in the current folder that specifies an SNS topic and the events to publish:

{
  "SNSTopic": "arn:aws:sns:us-west-2:0123456789012:my-vault",
  "Events": ["ArchiveRetrievalCompleted", "InventoryRetrievalCompleted"]
}

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

The following command uploads an archive in the current folder named archive.zip to a vault named my-vault:

aws glacier upload-archive --account-id - --vault-name my-vault --body archive.zip

Output:

{
    "archiveId": "kKB7ymWJVpPSwhGP6ycSOAekp9ZYe_--zM_mw6k76ZFGEIWQX-ybtRDvc2VkPSDtfKmQrj0IRQLSGsNuDp-AJVlu2ccmDSyDUmZwKbwbpAdGATGDiB3hHO0bjbGehXTcApVud_wyDw",
    "checksum": "969fb39823836d81f0cc028195fcdbcbbe76cdde932d4646fa7de5f21e18aa67",
    "location": "/0123456789012/vaults/my-vault/archives/kKB7ymWJVpPSwhGP6ycSOAekp9ZYe_--zM_mw6k76ZFGEIWQX-ybtRDvc2VkPSDtfKmQrj0IRQLSGsNuDp-AJVlu2ccmDSyDUmZwKbwbpAdGATGDiB3hHO0bjbGehXTcApVud_wyDw"
}

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

To retrieve an uploaded archive, initiate a retrieval job with the aws glacier initiate-job command.

The following command uploads the first 1 MiB (1024 x 1024 bytes) part of an archive:

aws glacier upload-multipart-part --body part1 --range 'bytes 0-1048575/*' --account-id - --vault-name my-vault --upload-id 19gaRezEXAMPLES6Ry5YYdqthHOC_kGRCT03L9yetr220UmPtBYKk-OssZtLqyFu7sY1_lR7vgFuJV6NtcV5zpsJ

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

The body parameter takes a path to a part file on the local filesystem. The range parameter takes an HTTP content range indicating the bytes that the part occupies in the completed archive. The upload ID is returned by the aws glacier initiate-multipart-upload command and can also be obtained by using aws glacier list-multipart-uploads.

For more information on multipart uploads to Amazon Glacier using the Amazon CLI, see Using Amazon Glacier in the Amazon CLI User Guide.