Lifecycle Rules in Practice
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Automating storage-class transitions and expiration based on object age.
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Key points
- •Rules apply to objects matching an optional prefix/tag filter, triggered by age in days
- •Transition actions move to cheaper classes; expiration actions delete
- •AWS enforces minimum age requirements between certain transitions to prevent counterproductive churn
- •Separate rules for noncurrent (old) versions are essential once Versioning is enabled