Automatically delete archives in a vault after 90 days.

[lucavix]

I'll use glacier to do day by day backups.
In this scenario it will be nice to have the ability to schedule a deletion of file older than X days ( where X > 90 to avoid deletion fee :-).

Do you think that this feature could be useful also to others ?

[MoriTanosuke]

Is this a feature of Amazon Glacier? I know that you can use the S3 lifecycle to automatically move old files from your S3 buckets into a glacier vault, but I'm not aware of any lifecycle features of the vault.

Can you maybe give an URL to the Glacier documentation for this?

[nitriques]

I do not think that the Glacier SDK has that. Remember that deleting content from Glacier may cost more money that leaving it there.

[ranrotx]

Most people store metadata for their Glacier archives externally. With this, it's possible to query the metadata on a schedule and then determine which archives to delete. A simple workflow would be something like:

1. Upload to Glacier
2. Store metadata (could use a small DynamoDB table)
3. Scheduled Lambda function queries the DynamoDB table. Receives a list of archives, determines which are older than X days. Lambda function could then call another Lambda function to delete the archives on your behalf.