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Ninad Gaikwad
Ninad Gaikwad

Reputation: 4480

Approach to move file from s3 to s3 glacier

I need to create a python flask application that moves a file from s3 storage to s3 glacier. I cannot use the lifetime policy to do this as I need to use glacier vault lock which isn't possible with the lifetime policy method since I won't be able to use any glacier features on those files. The files will be multiple GBs in size so I need to download these files and then upload them on glacier. I was thinking of adding a script on ec2 that will be triggered by flask and will start downloading and uploading files to glacier. This is the only solution I have come up with and it doesn't seem very efficient but I'm not sure. I am pretty new to AWS so any tips or thoughts will be appreciated.

Not posting any code as I don't really have a problem with the coding, just the approach I should take.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 773

Answers (1)

John Rotenstein
John Rotenstein

Reputation: 269091

It appears that your requirement is to use Glacier Vault Lock on some objects to guarantee that they cannot be deleted within a certain timeframe.

Fortunately, similar capabilities have recently been added to Amazon S3, called Amazon S3 Object Lock. This works at the object or bucket level.

Therefore, you could simply use Object Lock instead of moving the objects to Glacier.

If the objects will be infrequently accessed, you might also want to change the Storage Class to something cheaper before locking it.

See: Introduction to Amazon S3 Object Lock - Amazon Simple Storage Service

Upvotes: 3

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