Step 6: Delete a Vault 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.

Step 6: Delete a Vault in S3 Glacier

A vault is a container for storing archives. To delete an Amazon S3 Glacier vault, you must first delete all existing archives in the vault as of the last inventory that S3 Glacier computed.

You can delete a vault programmatically or by using the S3 Glacier console. For information about deleting a vault programmatically, see Deleting a Vault in Amazon S3 Glacier.

Important

If you upload an archive to a vault or delete an archive from a vault within the recent 24 hours, you must wait until the last vault inventory is updated to reflect the latest information. S3 Glacier prepares an inventory for each vault periodically, every 24 hours.

To delete an empty vault

  1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the S3 Glacier console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/glacier/home.

  2. From the Select a Region menu, choose the AWS Region for the vault that you want to delete.

    In this getting started exercise, your example vault is in the US West (Oregon) Region.

  3. Select the option button next to the empty vault that you want to delete. If the vault is not empty, you must delete all archives before deleting the vault. For more information, see Deleting an Archive in Amazon S3 Glacier.

    Important

    Deleting a vault can't be undone.

  4. Choose Delete.

  5. The Delete vault dialog box appears. Choose Delete.

To delete a nonempty vault

  1. If you're deleting a nonempty vault, you must first delete all existing archives before deleting the vault. You can do this by writing code to make a delete archive request by using either the REST API, the AWS SDK for Java, the AWS SDK for .NET or the AWS CLI. For information about deleting archives, see Step 5: Delete an Archive from a Vault in S3 Glacier.

  2. After the vault is empty, follow the steps to delete an empty vault in the preceding procedure.