Protecting S3 Glacier vaults with Vault Lock

In this recipe, we will learn to use Amazon S3 Glacier Vault Lock and the Vault Lock policy. We will create a Glacier vault, as required for this recipe, in the Getting ready section.

Getting ready

Create an S3 Glacier vault as follows:

1. Go to Glacier service in the console.
2. Click on Create Vault.
3. Select a region and provide a name. I have selected US East (N. Virginia). I have also given the name as mybackupvault. Click Next Step.
4. Select Enable notifications and use an existing SNS topic and click Next Step.
5. Provide the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the SNS topic we have already created. We created an SNS topic in the Creating an SNS topic to send email recipe in Chapter 8, Monitoring...