s3_glacier_delete_vault_archives.sh

#!/bin/sh

# Small script to delete all archives in the given vault
# Based on https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonglacier/latest/dev/deleting-an-archive-using-cli.html

# Setup: account-id and vault-name
account=${1:-882328332680}
vault=${2:-DS216J_001132719CB4_1}

# Start the job to retrieve archive ids
echo "`date` | Initiating job for account $account vault $vault ..."
jobId=`aws glacier initiate-job --vault-name $vault --account-id $account --job-parameters "{\"Type\":\"inventory-retrieval\"}" | jq -r '.jobId'`

# Wait until completed:
echo "`date` | Waiting until job ${jobId} completes..."
completed=false
iteration_no=0
until $completed
do
	((iteration_no++))
	d=`date`
	printf "$d | $iteration_no | Checking job ${jobId}... "
	jobStatus=`aws glacier describe-job --vault-name $vault --account-id $account --job-id "'$jobId'"`
    completed=`echo $jobStatus | jq -r '.Completed'`
    statusCode=`echo $jobStatus | jq -r '.StatusCode'`
    printf "${statusCode} -> "
    if $completed ; then echo 'Completed!' ; else echo "Not completed (${completed}). Sleeping 30s..." ; sleep 30 ; fi
done

# Save the job output
echo "Downloading job output into ${vault}.json..."
aws glacier get-job-output --vault-name $vault --account-id $account --job-id "'$jobId'" ${vault}.json | jq

# Delete each archive
archiveIds=($(jq -r '.ArchiveList | .[].ArchiveId' ${vault}.json | tr -d '[]," '))
archivesNb=${#archiveIds[@]}
echo "`date` | Found $archivesNb archives for vault $vault"

ii=0
for archiveId in "${archiveIds[@]}"
do :
   ((ii++))
   echo "`date` | $ii / $archivesNb | Deleting ${archiveId}"
   aws glacier delete-archive --vault-name $vault --account-id $account --archive-id "'$archiveId'"
done