Amazon doesn't provide an easy way to delete Glacier vaults. When a vault still contains archives, you'll have to delete them before you're able to delete the vault. This is quite a troublesome process.
First you will need to fetch a list of all archives. Which can take several hours. Then you need to extract the ArchiveId from each archive and manually delete the archive via a aws-cli command.
This script helps you with this last step.
- aws-cli - https://aws.amazon.com/cli/
- nodejs - https://nodejs.org/
- Create an Inventory Retrieval job via aws-cli. (This can take several hours)
- After it's done output the Archive list to a file named
output.json. - Run this script to delete all archives in this JSON file.
$ npm install
$ node glacier-delete.js {vault name} --json-file {JSON output file}| Variable | Required | Default value | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| vault-name | true | ||
| account-id | - | - = default account id for current profile | |
| wait-time | 500 | in milliseconds | |
| json-file | ./output.json |
More information here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonglacier/latest/dev/deleting-an-archive-using-cli.html