Concepts and definitions

This section describes key concepts and defines terminology specific to this Guidance: 

archive

Any data stored in an Amazon Glacier vault, such as a photo, video, or document. An archive is similar to an Amazon S3 object: it's the base unit of storage in the Amazon Glacier service. For more information, see Archive in the Amazon Glacier Developer Guide.

chunk

Term used to describe a part in a multipart upload or download for the Amazon Glacier service. This Guidance uses multipart upload to transfer the archives. For more information, see Uploading Large Archives in Parts (Multipart Upload) and Retrieving Amazon Glacier Archives Using AWS Management Console in the Amazon Glacier Developer Guide.

inventory

A point in time snapshot or listing of the archives stored within an Amazon Glacier vault. For more information, see Downloading a Vault Inventory in Amazon Glacier in the Amazon Glacier Developer Guide.

tag

A key-value pair used to categorize storage in the Amazon S3 service. For more information, see Categorizing your storage using tags in the Amazon S3 User Guide.

vault

A container in the Amazon Glacier service for storing archives. An Amazon Glacier vault is similar to an S3 bucket. For more information, see Vault in the Amazon Glacier Developer Guide.

workflow_run

An identifier used to represent the transfer of an Amazon Glacier vault to an S3 bucket. The Guidance randomly generates the workflow_run value on the first run (or you can choose the value). The Guidance uses this value when resuming a transfer.