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Creating an S3 Storage Lifecycle
In this lab you will be taking on the role of a cloud data engineer, and you have been asked to help reduce storage costs by transitioning S3 objects to cheaper storage classes. You’ve been asked to transition objects to Standard-IA after 30 days, and expire the objects after one year.

Lab Info
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Challenge
Upload an object to the S3 bucket.
Navigate to the S3 service and upload a small text document to the S3 bucket.
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Challenge
Create an S3 lifecycle for the S3 bucket
From the bucket management menu, create an S3 lifecycle.
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Challenge
Add relevant transitions to the S3 lifecycle policy
Set the S3 lifecycle to transfer all objects to 'Standard-IA' after 30 days, and expire all objects after 365 days.
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Verify your lifecycle policy
Navigate to the text file and check to see if the lifecycle policy has been applied.
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