Downloading an Archive in S3 Glacier - Amazon S3 Glacier

If you're new to archival storage in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), we recommend that you start by learning more about the S3 Glacier storage classes in Amazon S3, S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval, S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval, and S3 Glacier Deep Archive. For more information, see S3 Glacier storage classes and Storage classes for archiving objects in the Amazon S3 User Guide.

Downloading an Archive in S3 Glacier

Amazon S3 Glacier provides a management console, which you can use to create and delete vaults. However, you cannot download archives from S3 Glacier by using the management console. To download data, such as photos, videos, and other documents, you must either use the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) or write code to make requests, by using either the REST API directly or by using the AWS SDKs.

For information about using S3 Glacier with the AWS CLI, see the AWS CLI Reference for S3 Glacier. To install the AWS CLI, see AWS Command Line Interface. The following topics describe how to download archives to S3 Glacier by using the AWS SDK for Java, the AWS SDK for .NET, and the Amazon S3 Glacier REST API.