How to restore folders (or entire buckets) to Amazon S3 from Glacier?

Question

I changed the lifecycle for a bunch of my buckets on Amazon S3 so their storage class was set to Glacier. I did this using the online AWS Console. I now need those files a

Answer 1

If you're using the AWS CLI tool (it's nice, you should), you can do it like this:

aws s3 ls s3:// | awk '{print $4}' | xargs -L 1 aws s3api restore-object --restore-request Days= --bucket  --key

Replace with the bucket name you want.

Replace with the number of days you want to restore the object for.