Services or capabilities described in Amazon Web Services documentation might vary by Region. To see the differences applicable to the China Regions, see Getting Started with Amazon Web Services in China (PDF).

The Amazon SDK for JavaScript version 3 (v3) is a rewrite of v2 with some great new features, including modular architecture. For more information, see the Amazon SDK for JavaScript v3 Developer Guide.

Uploading an Archive to S3 Glacier

This Node.js code example shows:

The following example uploads a single Buffer object as an entire archive using the uploadArchive method of the S3 Glacier service object.

The example assumes you've already created a vault named YOUR_VAULT_NAME. The SDK automatically computes the tree hash checksum for the data uploaded, though you can override it by passing your own checksum parameter:

Prerequisite Tasks

To set up and run this example, you must first complete these tasks:

Upload the Archive

// Load the SDK for JavaScript
var AWS = require('aws-sdk');
// Set the region
AWS.config.update({region: 'REGION'});

// Create a new service object and buffer
var glacier = new AWS.Glacier({apiVersion: '2012-06-01'});
buffer = Buffer.alloc(2.5 * 1024 * 1024); // 2.5MB buffer

var params = {vaultName: 'YOUR_VAULT_NAME', body: buffer};
// Call Glacier to upload the archive.
glacier.uploadArchive(params, function(err, data) {
  if (err) {
    console.log("Error uploading archive!", err);
  } else {
    console.log("Archive ID", data.archiveId);
  }
});