Understand Lifecycle Rules

As per the AWS S3 pricing model, the cost is incurred on the amount of data stored in an S3 bucket. Therefore, to optimize the cost, it becomes necessary to configure a lifecycle rule that allows either the transition of objects to a different cost-effective storage class or their expiration after a specific time period.

Transition objects

Using an S3 lifecycle rule, it’s possible to move bucket objects to a different storage ...