Creating a Vault in Amazon S3 Glacier Using the AWS Command Line Interface
Follow these steps to create a vault in Amazon S3 Glacier (S3 Glacier) using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI).
(Prerequisite) Setting Up the AWS CLI
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Download and configure the AWS CLI. For instructions, see the following topics in the AWS Command Line Interface User Guide:
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Verify your AWS CLI setup by entering the following commands at the command prompt. These commands don't provide credentials explicitly, so the credentials of the default profile are used.
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Try using the help command.
aws help
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To get a list of S3 Glacier vaults on the configured account, use the
list-vaults
command. Replace123456789012
with your AWS account ID.aws glacier list-vaults --account-id
123456789012
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To see the current configuration data for the AWS CLI, use the
aws configure list
command.aws configure list
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Example: Creating a Vault Using the AWS CLI
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Use the
create-vault
command to create a vault namedawsexamplevault
under account111122223333
.aws glacier create-vault --vault-name
awsexamplevault
--account-id111122223333
Expected output:
{ "location": "/
111122223333
/vaults/awsexamplevault
" } -
Verify creation using the
describe-vault
command.aws glacier describe-vault --vault-name
awsexamplevault
--account-id111122223333