AWS S3 Glacier upload-archive taking a long time to finish execution - ways to check status or speed upload?

In case you do not require to use Amazon S3 Glacier special features such as vault locks and vault policies, you may consider using Amazon S3 with storage class of glacier.

The class stores all your objects in the Amazon S3 Glacier backed, but provides easy and familiar interface of S3. Some benefits as compared to using Amazon S3 Glacier directly:

  • file names are preserved in S3. In Glacier your filenames get scrambled,
  • easy multi-part upload using aws s3 cli,
  • easy retrieval to the archived objects
  • s3 object lifecycles which can automatically transition your objects to S3 glacier storage, or from glacier to deep archive.