Downloading a Vault Inventory Using the REST API - 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 a Vault Inventory Using the REST API

To download a vault inventory using the REST API

Downloading a vault inventory is a two-step process.

  1. Initiate a job of the inventory-retrieval type. For more information, see Initiate Job (POST jobs).

  2. After the job completes, download the inventory data. For more information, see Get Job Output (GET output).