Create Vault (PUT vault) - Amazon S3 Glacier
DescriptionRequestsResponsesExamplesRelated SectionsSee Also

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.

Create Vault (PUT vault)

Description

This operation creates a new vault with the specified name.  The name of the vault must be unique within an AWS Region for an AWS account. You can create up to 1,000 vaults per account. For information on creating more vaults, go to the Amazon S3 Glacier product detail page.

You must use the following guidelines when naming a vault.

  • Names can be between 1 and 255 characters long.

  • Allowed characters are a–z, A–Z, 0–9, '_' (underscore), '-' (hyphen), and '.' (period).

This operation is idempotent, you can send the same request multiple times and it has no further effect after the first time Amazon S3 Glacier (S3 Glacier) creates the specified vault.

Requests

Syntax

To create a vault, send an HTTP PUT request to the URI of the vault to be created.

PUT /AccountId/vaults/VaultName HTTP/1.1
Host: glacier.Region.amazonaws.com
Date: Date
Authorization: SignatureValue
Content-Length: Length
x-amz-glacier-version: 2012-06-01

Note

The AccountId value is the AWS account ID. This value must match the AWS account ID associated with the credentials used to sign the request. You can either specify an AWS account ID or optionally a single '-' (hyphen), in which case Amazon S3 Glacier uses the AWS account ID associated with the credentials used to sign the request. If you specify your account ID, do not include any hyphens ('-') in the ID.

Request Parameters

This operation does not use request parameters.

Request Headers

This operation uses only request headers that are common to all operations. For information about common request headers, see Common Request Headers.

Request Body

The request body for this operation must be empty (0 bytes).

Responses

Syntax

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
x-amzn-RequestId: x-amzn-RequestId
Date: Date
Location: Location

Response Headers

A successful response includes the following response headers, in addition to the response headers that are common to all operations. For more information about common response headers, see Common Response Headers.

Name Description

Location

The relative URI path of the vault that was created.

Type: String

Response Body

This operation does not return a response body.

Errors

For information about Amazon S3 Glacier exceptions and error messages, see Error Responses.

Examples

Example Request

The following example sends an HTTP PUT request to create a vault named examplevault. 

PUT /-/vaults/examplevault HTTP/1.1
Host: glacier.us-west-2.amazonaws.com
x-amz-Date: 20170210T120000Z
x-amz-glacier-version: 2012-06-01
Content-Length: 0
Authorization: AWS4-HMAC-SHA256 Credential=AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE/20141123/us-west-2/glacier/aws4_request,SignedHeaders=host;x-amz-date;x-amz-glacier-version,Signature=9257c16da6b25a715ce900a5b45b03da0447acf430195dcb540091b12966f2a2

Example Response

S3 Glacier creates the vault and returns the relative URI path of the vault in the Location header. The account ID is always displayed in the Location header regardless of whether the account ID or a hyphen ('-') was specified in the request.

HTTP/1.1 201 Created
x-amzn-RequestId: AAABZpJrTyioDC_HsOmHae8EZp_uBSJr6cnGOLKp_XJCl-Q
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2017 12:02:00 GMT
Location: /111122223333/vaults/examplevault

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific Amazon SDKs, see the following: