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Managing AWS S3 Lifecycle and Glacier Integration with Terraform

In this lab learners will learn how to use S3 lifecycle policies to transition data objects to different levels of storage based on their access frequency. Doing this frees up company storage space and can potentially save the company thousands of dollars by moving data objects to cheaper storage options automatically. In particular learners will get practice using terraform to automate the creation of S3 buckets with an associated lifecycle policy to move data to Amazon’s long term data retrieval storage, Amazon S3 Glacier.

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Level
Intermediate
Last updated
Sep 25, 2025
Duration
15m

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Table of Contents
  1. Challenge

    Creating Amazon S3 buckets

    Use terraform to create a S3 bucket to store data

  2. Challenge

    Creating S3 lifecycle policies

    Use terraform to create a S3 Lifecycle policy for automated data transitioning to Amazon Glacier after a specified amount of time.

  3. Challenge

    Verifying the lifecycle policy

    Use the AWS console to review the created S3 bucket and lifecycle policy using the management tab.

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