Advanced S3

Question 1

Which Lifecycle rules are used in S3?

Answer 1

• 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 expire (delete) after some time
  – Access log files can be set to delete after a 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 (example: s3://mybucket/mp3/*)
* Rules can be created for certain objectsTags (example:Department:Finance)