Unable to upload files to Amazon Glacier

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I have an AWS EC2 instance yielding some data, which in turn is meant to be moved to AWS Glacier. According to Is it possible to move EC2 volumes to Amazon Glacier without having to download and upload it? - Stack Overflow there are only two ways to put data in Glacier:

  1. Upload data directly as described in Using Amazon Glacier with the AWS Command Line Interface - AWS Command Line Interface
  2. Copy/move the data to S3 and create a lifecycle rule.

Unfortunately neither approaches worked, meaning that I access my vault and nothing is there, even after a week. Furthermore once I complete the example provided, the "aws glacier describe-vault" command outputs:

{
    "SizeInBytes": 0, 
    "NumberOfArchives": 0, 
    "CreationDate": "2018-08-14T12:59:31.456Z", 
    ... 
}

What am I missing?

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When you used option #1, did you receive an error message when you created an Archive within the Vault? Are you sure that you ran the command in the same region as your vault? – John Rotenstein
i) no; ii) yes. Thanks for your help! – João Matos

1 Answers

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For Option #2, where you created a lifecycle rule to move objects to Glacier, you will not see the objects in Glacier itself.

When Amazon S3 lifecycles objects to Glacier, the objects are kept in a Glacier vault that is managed by Amazon S3 and is not visible to you. Instead, the objects in S3 will show a Storage Class of Glacier, which means that the object metadata is kept in S3 (name, size, etc) but the actual contents of the object has been moved to Glacier.

As long as you can see the Storage Class of Glacier, your objects have been successfully moved to Glacier.