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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.

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Level
Beginner
Last updated
Sep 23, 2025
Duration
30m

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Table of Contents
  1. Challenge

    Upload an object to the S3 bucket.

    Navigate to the S3 service and upload a small text document to the S3 bucket.

  2. Challenge

    Create an S3 lifecycle for the S3 bucket

    From the bucket management menu, create an S3 lifecycle.

  3. 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.

  4. Challenge

    Verify your lifecycle policy

    Navigate to the text file and check to see if the lifecycle policy has been applied.

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