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
Amazon Glacier (original standalone vault-based service) will no longer accept new customers starting December 15, 2025, with no impact to existing customers. Amazon Glacier is a standalone service with its own APIs that stores data in vaults and is distinct from Amazon S3 and the Amazon S3 Glacier storage classes. Your existing data will remain secure and accessible in Amazon Glacier indefinitely. No migration is required. For low-cost, long-term archival storage, AWS recommends the Amazon S3 Glacier storage classes
Logging Amazon Glacier API Calls with AWS CloudTrail
Amazon Glacier (Amazon Glacier) is integrated with AWS CloudTrail, a service that provides a record of actions taken by a user, role, or an AWS service in Amazon Glacier. CloudTrail captures all API calls for Amazon Glacier as events, including calls from the Amazon Glacier console and from code calls to the Amazon Glacier APIs. If you create a trail, you can enable continuous delivery of CloudTrail events to an Amazon S3 bucket, including events for Amazon Glacier. If you don't configure a trail, you can still view the most recent events in the CloudTrail console in Event history. Using the information collected by CloudTrail, you can determine the request that was made to Amazon Glacier, the IP address from which the request was made, who made the request, when it was made, and additional details.
To learn more about CloudTrail, see the AWS CloudTrail User Guide.
Amazon Glacier Information in CloudTrail
CloudTrail is enabled on your AWS account when you create the account. When activity occurs in Amazon Glacier, that activity is recorded in a CloudTrail event along with other AWS service events in Event history. You can view, search, and download recent events in your AWS account. For more information, see Viewing Events with CloudTrail Event History.
For an ongoing record of events in your AWS account, including events for Amazon Glacier, create a trail. A trail enables CloudTrail to deliver log files to an Amazon S3 bucket. By default, when you create a trail in the console, the trail applies to all AWS Regions. The trail logs events from all AWS Regions in the AWS partition and delivers the log files to the Amazon S3 bucket that you specify. Additionally, you can configure other AWS services to further analyze and act upon the event data collected in CloudTrail logs. For more information, see:
All Amazon Glacier actions are logged by CloudTrail and are documented in the API Reference for Amazon Glacier. For example, calls to the Create Vault (PUT vault), Delete Vault (DELETE vault), and List Vaults (GET vaults) actions generate entries in the CloudTrail log files.
Every event or log entry contains information about who generated the request. The identity information helps you determine the following:
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Whether the request was made with root user or other credentials.
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Whether the request was made with temporary security credentials for a role or federated user.
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Whether the request was made by another AWS service.
For more information, see the CloudTrail userIdentity Element.
Understanding Amazon Glacier Log File Entries
A trail is a configuration that enables delivery of events as log files to an Amazon S3 bucket that you specify. CloudTrail log files contain one or more log entries. An event represents a single request from any source and includes information about the requested action, the date and time of the action, request parameters, and so on. CloudTrail log files are not an ordered stack trace of the public API calls, so they do not appear in any specific order.
The following example shows a CloudTrail log entry that demonstrates the Create Vault (PUT vault), Delete Vault (DELETE vault), List Vaults (GET vaults), and Describe Vault (GET vault) actions.
{ "Records": [ { "awsRegion": "us-east-1", "eventID": "52f8c821-002e-4549-857f-8193a15246fa", "eventName": "CreateVault", "eventSource": "glacier.amazonaws.com", "eventTime": "2014-12-10T19:05:15Z", "eventType": "AwsApiCall", "eventVersion": "1.02", "recipientAccountId": "999999999999", "requestID": "HJiLgvfXCY88QJAC6rRoexS9ThvI21Q1Nqukfly02hcUPPo", "requestParameters": { "accountId": "-", "vaultName": "myVaultName" }, "responseElements": { "location": "/999999999999/vaults/myVaultName" }, "sourceIPAddress": "127.0.0.1", "userAgent": "aws-sdk-java/1.9.6 Mac_OS_X/10.9.5 Java_HotSpot(TM)_64-Bit_Server_VM/25.25-b02/1.8.0_25", "userIdentity": { "accessKeyId": "AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE", "accountId": "999999999999", "arn": "arn:aws:iam::999999999999:user/myUserName", "principalId": "A1B2C3D4E5F6G7EXAMPLE", "type": "IAMUser", "userName": "myUserName" } }, { "awsRegion": "us-east-1", "eventID": "cdd33060-4758-416a-b7b9-dafd3afcec90", "eventName": "DeleteVault", "eventSource": "glacier.amazonaws.com", "eventTime": "2014-12-10T19:05:15Z", "eventType": "AwsApiCall", "eventVersion": "1.02", "recipientAccountId": "999999999999", "requestID": "GGdw-VfhVfLCFwAM6iVUvMQ6-fMwSqSO9FmRd0eRSa_Fc7c", "requestParameters": { "accountId": "-", "vaultName": "myVaultName" }, "responseElements": null, "sourceIPAddress": "127.0.0.1", "userAgent": "aws-sdk-java/1.9.6 Mac_OS_X/10.9.5 Java_HotSpot(TM)_64-Bit_Server_VM/25.25-b02/1.8.0_25", "userIdentity": { "accessKeyId": "AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE", "accountId": "999999999999", "arn": "arn:aws:iam::999999999999:user/myUserName", "principalId": "A1B2C3D4E5F6G7EXAMPLE", "type": "IAMUser", "userName": "myUserName" } }, { "awsRegion": "us-east-1", "eventID": "355750b4-e8b0-46be-9676-e786b1442470", "eventName": "ListVaults", "eventSource": "glacier.amazonaws.com", "eventTime": "2014-12-10T19:05:15Z", "eventType": "AwsApiCall", "eventVersion": "1.02", "recipientAccountId": "999999999999", "requestID": "yPTs22ghTsWprFivb-2u30FAaDALIZP17t4jM_xL9QJQyVA", "requestParameters": { "accountId": "-" }, "responseElements": null, "sourceIPAddress": "127.0.0.1", "userAgent": "aws-sdk-java/1.9.6 Mac_OS_X/10.9.5 Java_HotSpot(TM)_64-Bit_Server_VM/25.25-b02/1.8.0_25", "userIdentity": { "accessKeyId": "AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE", "accountId": "999999999999", "arn": "arn:aws:iam::999999999999:user/myUserName", "principalId": "A1B2C3D4E5F6G7EXAMPLE", "type": "IAMUser", "userName": "myUserName" } }, { "awsRegion": "us-east-1", "eventID": "569e830e-b075-4444-a826-aa8b0acad6c7", "eventName": "DescribeVault", "eventSource": "glacier.amazonaws.com", "eventTime": "2014-12-10T19:05:15Z", "eventType": "AwsApiCall", "eventVersion": "1.02", "recipientAccountId": "999999999999", "requestID": "QRt1ZdFLGn0TCm784HmKafBmcB2lVaV81UU3fsOR3PtoIiM", "requestParameters": { "accountId": "-", "vaultName": "myVaultName" }, "responseElements": null, "sourceIPAddress": "127.0.0.1", "userAgent": "aws-sdk-java/1.9.6 Mac_OS_X/10.9.5 Java_HotSpot(TM)_64-Bit_Server_VM/25.25-b02/1.8.0_25", "userIdentity": { "accessKeyId": "AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE", "accountId": "999999999999", "arn": "arn:aws:iam::999999999999:user/myUserName", "principalId": "A1B2C3D4E5F6G7EXAMPLE", "type": "IAMUser", "userName": "myUserName" } } ] }
