Lifecycle Mangement, IA S3 and Galcier - Hands On

Lifecycle Management:

This basically helps in maintaining the life cycle of the object by writing a rule for the object under management section, by adding a life cycle rule.

Life cycle rule: These rules help in manage the life cycle cost by transitioning from S3, after certain time into IA S3 and then to Glacier archiving the files which are least frequently used there by reducing the cost of the storage drastically.

Under the life cycle transition rules we can configure either on the current version or on the previous versions.

Object Created -- 30days later --> Transitioned to IA -- 30days later --> Transitioned to Glacier

-- 425 days later --> Expires

If the number of days in the glacier is less than 90 days and we want to expire it before completing 90 days in the glacier, we will be required to give an extra authorization saying we want to delete the object even though we are charged for 90 days(which logically doesn't make sense).
Glacier is designed to store an object at least for a minimum of 90 days.

Min 30 days after creation to IA S3, 60 days to Glacier and 61 days to Expire