Manage the S3 Data till end of life, efficiently

•AWS S3 provides Lifecycle management process to manage the data till end of life in a cost efficient way.

•Lifecycle of a object in the bucket or entire bucket can be managed using Lifecycle rules

•Lifecycle rules enable you to automatically transition objects to the less expensive S3 storage option say Standard - Infrequent Access Storage Class, and/or archive objects to the Glacier Storage Class, and/or remove objects after a specified time period.

•Each rule has an action either Transaction action or Expiration actions.

•You can apply rules to either all the objects in the bucket or all the objects that share the specified prefix.

•Moving the object directly from S3 to Glacier and S3 to Expire / Delete is also possible.

•The object should be in Glacier for min of 90 days before delete; even otherwise it will be charged for 90 days as per the Glacier pricing model.

•Old UI for Lifecycle management is pretty self-explanatory than the New UI, hence you may switch to Old UI & try for better clarity.