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This page is only for existing customers of the Amazon Glacier service using Vaults and the original REST API from 2012.

If you're looking for archival storage solutions, we recommend using the Amazon Glacier storage classes in Amazon S3, S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval, S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval, and S3 Glacier Deep Archive. To learn more about these storage options, see Amazon Glacier storage classes.

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Get Vault Lock (GET lock-policy)

Description

This operation retrieves the following attributes from the lock-policy subresource set on the specified vault:

The vault lock policy set on the vault.
The state of the vault lock, which is either InProgess or Locked.
When the lock ID expires. The lock ID is used to complete the vault locking process.
When the vault lock was initiated and put into the InProgress state.

A vault lock is put into the InProgress state by calling Initiate Vault Lock (POST lock-policy). A vault lock is put into the Locked state by calling Complete Vault Lock (POST lockId). You can stop the vault locking process by calling Abort Vault Lock (DELETE lock-policy). For more information about the vault locking process, see Amazon Glacier Vault Lock.

If there is no vault lock policy set on the vault, the operation returns a 404 Not found error. For more information about vault lock policies, see Vault Lock Policies.

Requests

To return the current vault lock policy and other attributes, send an HTTP GET request to the URI of the vault's lock-policy subresource as shown in the following syntax example.

Syntax


GET /AccountId/vaults/vaultName/lock-policy HTTP/1.1
Host: glacier.Region.amazonaws.com
Date: Date
Authorization: SignatureValue
x-amz-glacier-version: 2012-06-01

Note

The AccountId value is the AWS account ID of the account that owns the vault. You can either specify an AWS account ID or optionally a single '-' (hyphen), in which case Amazon Glacier uses the AWS account ID associated with the credentials used to sign the request. If you use an 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

This operation does not have a request body.

Responses

In response, Amazon Glacier (Amazon Glacier) returns the vault access policy in JSON format in the body of the response.

Syntax


HTTP/1.1 200 OK
x-amzn-RequestId: x-amzn-RequestId
Date: Date
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: length
				
{
  "Policy": "string",
  "State": "string",
  "ExpirationDate": "string",
  "CreationDate":"string"
}

Response Headers

This operation uses only response headers that are common to most responses. For information about common response headers, see Common Response Headers.

Response Body

The response body contains the following JSON fields.

Policy

The vault lock policy as a JSON string, which uses "\" as an escape character.

Type: String

State

The state of the vault lock.

Type: String

Valid values: InProgress|Locked

ExpirationDate

The UTC date and time at which the lock ID expires. This value can be null if the vault lock is in a Locked state.

Type: A string representation in the ISO 8601 date format, for example 2013-03-20T17:03:43.221Z.

CreationDate

The UTC date and time at which the vault lock was put into the InProgress state.

Type: A string representation in the ISO 8601 date format, for example 2013-03-20T17:03:43.221Z.

Errors

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

Examples

The following example demonstrates how to get a vault lock policy.

Example Request

In this example, a GET request is sent to the URI of a vault's lock-policy subresource.


GET /-/vaults/examplevault/lock-policy HTTP/1.1
Host: glacier.us-west-2.amazonaws.com
x-amz-Date: 20170210T120000Z
x-amz-glacier-version: 2012-06-01
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

If the request was successful, Amazon Glacier returns the vault access policy as a JSON string in the body of the response. The returned JSON string uses "\" as an escape character, as shown in the Initiate Vault Lock (POST lock-policy) example request. However, the following example shows the returned JSON string without escape characters for readability.


HTTP/1.1 200 OK
x-amzn-RequestId: AAABZpJrTyioDC_HsOmHae8EZp_uBSJr6cnGOLKp_XJCl-Q
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2017 12:00:00 GMT
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: length

{
  "Policy": "
    {
      "Version": "2012-10-17",		 	 	 
      "Statement": [
        {
          "Sid": "Define-vault-lock",
          "Principal": {
            "AWS": "arn:aws:iam::999999999999:root"
          },
          "Effect": "Deny",
          "Action": "glacier:DeleteArchive",
          "Resource": [
            "arn:aws:glacier:us-west-2:999999999999:vaults/examplevault"
          ],
          "Condition": {
            "NumericLessThanEquals": {
              "glacier:ArchiveAgeInDays": "365"
            }
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  ",
  "State": "InProgress",
  "ExpirationDate": "exampledate",
  "CreationDate": "exampledate"  
}

Abort Vault Lock (DELETE lock-policy)

Complete Vault Lock (POST lockId)

Initiate Vault Lock (POST lock-policy)