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Amazon S3 removes 30-day minimum for transitions to S3 Standard-IA and S3 One Zone-IA

Amazon S3 now allows transitioning objects to S3 Standard-IA and S3 One Zone-IA immediately after creation, eliminating the previous 30-day minimum retention in S3 Standard. This reduces storage costs by up to 40% while maintaining millisecond access for cold data scenarios.

Amazon S3 has reduced the minimum retention period for transitioning objects to S3 Standard-Infrequent Access (S3 Standard-IA) and S3 One Zone-Infrequent Access (S3 One Zone-IA) from 30 days to zero days after object creation. This change enables immediate migration of objects to these storage classes, which offer up to 40% lower storage costs than S3 Standard while providing millisecond access when needed. These classes are ideal for backups, log analytics, and compliance workloads where data becomes cold within hours or days. Users can configure new S3 Lifecycle rules to transition objects to S3 Standard-IA and S3 One Zone-IA immediately using the S3 console, AWS CLI, or SDKs. The update is available in all AWS Regions where S3 Standard-IA and S3 One Zone-IA are offered.

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