Creating a S3 Glacier Vault - Amazon SDK for JavaScript
Prerequisite TasksCreate the Vault
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Creating a S3 Glacier Vault

JavaScript code example that applies to Node.js execution

This Node.js code example shows:

  • How to create a vault using the createVault method of the Amazon S3 Glacier service object.

Prerequisite Tasks

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

Create the Vault

// 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!");
  }
});