Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers some very affordable archive storage via it’s S3 Glacier service. I’ve used this on a backup account in the past to store archives, and have decided it’s time to clear down this account (oh, and save $0.32 a month in doing so).
The main challenge with doing this, is that unlike S3, S3 Glacier (objects stored directly there rather than using the Glacier storage tier within S3) objects can only be deleted via the AWS CLI. And to delete a Glacier Vault, you’ve got to delete all of the objects.
In this post I’ll spin up a Lightsail box and wipe out the pesky Glacier objects through the AWS CLI. This doesn’t require any changes on your local PC, but will require some patience.
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