Lifecycle Rules

Amazon S3 - Moving between Storage Classes

• Can transition objects between storage calsses
• For infrequently accessed objects, move them to Standard IA
• For archive objects that you don’t need fast access to, move them to glacier or Glacier Deep Archive

Transition Actions

Configure objects to transition to another storage class

• Move objects to Standard IA class 60 days after creation
• Move to Glacier for archiving after 6 months

Expiration Actions

Configure objects to delete after some time

• Access log files can be set to deleate after 365 days
• Can be used to delete old versions of files (if versioning is enabled)
• Can be used to delete incomplete Multi-Part uploads

Rules can be created for a certain prefix

Rules can be created for certain objects Tags