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Creating an S3 Lifecycle Policy to Optimize Costs

Your leadership team has asked your team to create lifecycle policies on any new S3 buckets to ensure that objects will be moved over to save on costs moving forward. This lab will allow you to create an S3 bucket, upload a document, and create lifecycles for both a transition action and expiration action.

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Level
Beginner
Last updated
Sep 24, 2025
Duration
30m

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Table of Contents
  1. Challenge

    Create and Upload

    In this objective, you will create an S3 bucket and upload 2 objects.

  2. Challenge

    Transition Policy Creation

    In this objective, you will create a transition action policy for our first object and then review the differences in costs in the AWS Pricing Calculator.

  3. Challenge

    Expiration Policy Creation

    In this objective, you will create an expiration action policy for our second object and then review the differences in costs in the AWS Pricing Calculator.

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