Please help me delete my Glacier vault before I go bankrupt

Question

I had been backing up a personal NAS to Glacier but it was costing too much so I decided on another solution.

However, I'm having trouble deleting the vault.

I followed the instructions at https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonglacier/latest/dev/deleting-an-archive-using-cli.html, and it said I have one archive. But when I went to delete that archive, I got the error: "An error occurred (ResourceNotFoundException) when calling the DeleteArchive operation: The archive ID was not found: xxxxx...xx".

How can an archive returned by those steps not be found when  I try to delete it?

Worse, my attempts to delete the darn thing have cost me over $60 in little over a day! This is not turning out to be the cost-saving measure I had originally hoped for.

Can someone please help me delete this thing?

Steve Kinsman · Accepted Answer

So as in the examples at https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonglacier/latest/dev/api-job-output-get.html, you get an archive list like this?:

```
{
 "VaultARN": "arn:aws:glacier:us-west-2:012345678901:vaults/examplevault",
 "InventoryDate": "2011-12-12T14:19:01Z",
 "ArchiveList": [
   {
     "ArchiveId": "DMTmICA2n5Tdqq5BV2z7og-A20xnpAPKt3UXwWxdWsn_D6auTUrW6kwy5Qyj9xd1MCE1mBYvMQ63LWaT8yTMzMaCxB_9VBWrW4Jw4zsvg5kehAPDVKcppUD1X7b24JukOr4mMAq-oA",
     "ArchiveDescription": "my archive1",
     "CreationDate": "2012-05-15T17:19:46.700Z",
     "Size": 2140123,
     "SHA256TreeHash": "6b9d4cf8697bd3af6aa1b590a0b27b337da5b18988dbcc619a3e608a554a1e62"
   },
   {
     "ArchiveId": "2lHzwhKhgF2JHyvCS-ZRuF08IQLuyB4265Hs3AXj9MoAIhz7tbXAvcFeHusgU_hViO1WeCBe0N5lsYYHRyZ7rrmRkNRuYrXUs_sjl2K8ume_7mKO_0i7C-uHE1oHqaW9d37pabXrSA",
     "ArchiveDescription": "my archive2",
     "CreationDate": "2012-05-15T17:21:39.339Z",
     "Size": 2140123,
     "SHA256TreeHash": "7f2fe580edb35154041fa3d4b41dd6d3adaef0c85d2ff6309f1d4b520eeecda3"
   }
  ]
}
```

And you get the error you said if you use ArchiveIds like above, e.g. `DMTmICA2n5Tdqq5BV2z7og-A20xnpAPKt3UXwWxdWsn_D6auTUrW6kwy5Qyj9xd1MCE1mBYvMQ63LWaT8yTMzMaCxB_9VBWrW4Jw4zsvg5kehAPDVKcppUD1X7b24JukOr4mMAq-oA`, in a command like this?:

```
aws glacier delete-archive --vault-name awsexamplevault --account-id 111122223333 --archive-id="*** archiveid ***"
```
Are you sure you're using the right account-id, vault-name, archive-id and region?

Please help me delete my Glacier vault before I go bankrupt

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