How do I create a lifecycle rule to move to glacier?

Question

Hi everyone, first time user of AWS... Thank you in advance for your help and your time.

I created a lifecycle rule to move everything to Glacier Flexible but it hasn't done anything yet... Have I misconfigured something? Does versioning need to be enabled for this type of transition to work?

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**Bonus Question:** Can I just select all objects and change the storage class? It said it would make a copy if I did that... I am assuming it means it will make a copy to Glacier and not maintain another copy in S3 standard.

Thanks again!

Chris_G · Accepted Answer

Hello,

Here's a relevant FAQ on how this process works: [Why isn't my Amazon S3 lifecycle configuration rule transitioning objects into the GLACIER storage class?](https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/s3-lifecycle-rule-glacier-storage/#:~:text=Before%20you%20check%20that%20the,has%20transitioned%20the%20storage%20class.).

> * If the objects are in the STANDARD_IA storage class, the objects must be stored in STANDARD_IA for at least 30 days before transitioning to GLACIER. Before you check that the rule transitioned the storage class, confirm that the objects have been stored in STANDARD_IA for at least 30 days.
> * Amazon S3 Lifecycle configuration rules run once a day. Check and confirm whether the rule has transitioned the storage class.
> * The total number of objects in the bucket affects the time it takes for you to see the change in storage class. If the bucket contains a large number of objects, then it might take longer to see the change in storage class.

Sarath Varma · Answer

Hi All,
I created a life cycle policy so that i can move my current and non current objects into Glacier Instant Retrieval & also i have objects which are less than 128KB. Read in aws s3 blog that objects less than 128KB cannot be moved to glacier from standard. so i added scope that object greater than 129 KB should be moved to glacier.

But when checking the objects in s3 not even a single has been moved to glacier.

Please let me know what exactly i have to do here or is there anything wrong with policy i configured ?

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Thanks in advance.

How do I create a lifecycle rule to move to glacier?

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