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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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Path Info

Level

Beginner

Duration

30m

Published

Feb 28, 2024

Challenge

Upload an object to the S3 bucket.

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

Create an S3 lifecycle for the S3 bucket

From the bucket management menu, create an S3 lifecycle.
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.
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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A Cloud Guru

The Cloud Content team comprises subject matter experts hyper focused on services offered by the leading cloud vendors (AWS, GCP, and Azure), as well as cloud-related technologies such as Linux and DevOps. The team is thrilled to share their knowledge to help you build modern tech solutions from the ground up, secure and optimize your environments, and so much more!

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