Deleting all archives from a Glacier vault

delete-archives.py

#!/opt/local/bin/python

# This gist assumes that the AWS CLI client has been installed
# and configured. To configure, run `aws configure`.

import boto3
import json

#TODO: Fill these in to match your case
vaultName = ""
inventoryFile = ""

json_string = open(inventoryFile).read()
data = json.loads(json_string)
archives = data['ArchiveList']

glacier = boto3.client('glacier')

for archive in archives:
	archiveID = archive['ArchiveId']
	print("Deleting: " + archiveID + ", size: " + str(archive['Size']))
	glacier.delete_archive(vaultName = vaultName, archiveId = archiveID)