The following command lists the vaults in the default account and region:: aws glacier list-vaults --account-id - Output:: { "VaultList": [ { "SizeInBytes": 3178496, "VaultARN": "arn:aws:glacier:us-west-2:0123456789012:vaults/my-vault", "LastInventoryDate": "2015-04-07T00:26:19.028Z", "VaultName": "my-vault", "NumberOfArchives": 1, "CreationDate": "2015-04-06T21:23:45.708Z" } ] } Amazon Glacier requires an account ID argument when performing operations, but you can use a hyphen to specify the in-use account.