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Set Vault Access Policy (PUT access-policy)

Description

This operation configures an access policy for a vault and will overwrite an existing policy. To configure a vault access policy, send a PUT request to the access-policy subresource of the vault. You can set one access policy per vault and the policy can be up to 20 KB in size. For more information about vault access policies, see Vault Access Policies.

Requests

Syntax

To set a vault access policy, send an HTTP PUT request to the URI of the vault's access-policy subresource as shown in the following syntax example.


PUT /AccountId/vaults/vaultName/access-policy HTTP/1.1
Host: glacier.Region.amazonaws.com
Date: Date
Authorization: SignatureValue
Content-Length: Length
x-amz-glacier-version: 2012-06-01
			
{
  "Policy": "string"
}

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 S3 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

The request body contains the following JSON fields.

Policy

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

Type: String

Required: Yes

Responses

In response, Amazon Glacier returns 204 No Content if the policy is accepted.

Syntax


HTTP/1.1 204 No Content
x-amzn-RequestId: x-amzn-RequestId
Date: Date

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

This operation does not return a response body.

Errors

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

Examples

Example Request

The following example sends an HTTP PUT request to the URI of the vault's access-policy subresource. The Policy JSON string uses "\" as an escape character.


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

{"Policy":"{\"Version\":\"2012-10-17\",		 	 	 \"Statement\":[{\"Sid\":\"Define-owner-access-rights\",\"Effect\":\"Allow\",\"Principal\":{\"AWS\":\"arn:aws:iam::999999999999:root\"},\"Action\":\"glacier:DeleteArchive\",\"Resource\":\"arn:aws:glacier:us-west-2:999999999999:vaults/examplevault\"}]}"}

Example Response

If the request was successful, Amazon Glacier (Amazon Glacier) returns a HTTP 204 No Content as shown in the following example.


HTTP/1.1 204 No Content
x-amzn-RequestId: AAABZpJrTyioDC_HsOmHae8EZp_uBSJr6cnGOLKp_XJCl-Q
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2017 12:02:00 GMT

Delete Vault Access Policy (DELETE access-policy)

Get Vault Access Policy (GET access-policy)