POST

/{accountId}/vaults/{vaultName}/jobs

http://glacier.{region}.amazonaws.com/{accountId}/vaults/{vaultName}/jobs

This operation initiates a job of the specified type, which can be a select, an archival retrieval, or a vault retrieval. For more information about using this operation, see the documentation for the underlying REST API <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonglacier/latest/dev/api-initiate-job-post.html">Initiate a Job</a>.

Access Token Required: API Key

Path Parameters

accountIdstringrequired

The <code>AccountId</code> 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 '<code>-</code>' (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.

vaultNamestringrequired

The name of the vault.

Body Params

jobParametersobject

Provides options for defining a job.

Responses

{
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "id": "abc123",
    "created_at": "2025-01-01T00:00:00Z"
  }
}

{
  "success": false,
  "error": {
    "code": "VALIDATION_ERROR",
    "message": "Invalid request parameters"
  }
}

Language

CredentialsAPI KEY

API Key

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cURL Request

1curl --request POST \
2     --url 'http://glacier.{region}.amazonaws.com/{accountId}/vaults/{vaultName}/jobs' \
3     --header 'accept: application/json' \
4     --header 'content-type: application/json'

Response

1{
2  "success": true,
3  "data": {
4    "id": "abc123",
5    "created_at": "2025-01-01T00:00:00Z"
6  }
7}