S3 Lifecycle rules

S3 Lifecycle Rules¶

• Set rules to move data between different tiers to save storage cost

• Example: S3 Standard Tier (General Purpose) => S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (IA) Tier => S3 Glacier

• Transition actions: It defines when objects are transitioned to another [[storage class]].

  • Eg: We can choose to move AWS S3 Objects to S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (IA) Tier class 60 days after you created them or can move to S3 Glacier for archiving after 6 months

• Expiration actions: Helps to configure objects to expire after a certain time period. S3 deletes expired AWS S3 Objects on our behalf

  • Eg: S3 Access logs files can be set to delete after a specified period of time

• Can be used to delete incomplete [[multi-part uploads]]