This operation deletes a vault. Amazon S3 Glacier will delete a vault
only if there are no archives in the vault as of the last inventory and
there have been no writes to the vault since the last inventory. If
either of these conditions is not satisfied, the vault deletion fails
(that is, the vault is not removed) and Amazon S3 Glacier returns an
error. You can use describe_vault
to return
the number of archives in a vault, and you can use Initiate a Job (POST jobs)
to initiate a new inventory retrieval for a vault. The inventory
contains the archive IDs you use to delete archives using Delete Archive (DELETE archive).
This operation is idempotent.
An AWS account has full permission to perform all operations (actions).
However, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) users don't have any
permissions by default. You must grant them explicit permission to
perform specific actions. For more information, see Access Control Using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM).
For conceptual information and underlying REST API, see Deleting a Vault in Amazon Glacier
and Delete Vault
in the Amazon S3 Glacier Developer Guide.