upload last part to glacier confusion

Question

Hi everyone, 
I'm new to glacier and aws in general.
I'm trying to save a large zipped (46G) mysql-dump to glacier from the linux commandline via the aws command. 
From the documentation, I got that it is needed to split this in equal parts and initiate a multipart-upload, which I've done. After calculating the start and end bytes of every part, I've managed to successfully transmit all of the parts except the last one.
When I try to upload this particular part with this command:
 
```
aws glacier upload-multipart-part --upload-id $UPLOADID --body xbt --range 'bytes 48318382080-48702934664/*' --account-id - --vault-name foobar
```

It throws me this error: An error occurred (InvalidParameterValueException) when calling the UploadMultipartPart operation: Content-Range: bytes 48318382080-48702934664/* is incompatible with Content-Length: 384552584

Unfortunately I was not able to find any type of command in the official documentation on how to tell aws that this shall be the last part which, logically, cannot be the same size as all of the other ones.
Does anyone know how I can upload the last part, which is smaller than the others via the aws command?
I'm running Ubuntu Server 20.04

Cheers,
Marc

John Rotenstein · Answer

There are two types of AWS "Glacier" services.

The first type is Amazon Glacier, which uses 'vaults' and 'archives'. It's a very slow and difficult service to use and is best avoided.

The second type is the "Glacier" storage classes available in Amazon S3. This is where you store data as normal in an S3 bucket, but you can change the **Storage Class** on objects to options like `S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval` and `S3 Glacier Deep Archive`. These are _much_ easier to use since Amazon S3 has a nice interface and plenty of tools know how to use it. Plus, using Glacier storage classes in S3 is actually _cheaper_ than storing directly into Glacier!

I can see from your sample command that you are using the Amazon Glacier service, so I recommend that you instead change to using S3. When uploading objects, you can specify a storage class immediately like this:

```
aws s3 cp foo.txt s3://bucketname/foo.txt --storage-class DEEP_ARCHIVE
```

The AWS CLI can handle multi-part uploads automatically for you.

upload last part to glacier confusion

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