Is it possible for you to share the code you are using?

The following code is called (via Puppet) with a single parameter (the name of the host that is having it's lifecycle created) and stdout posted to a file

#!/usr/bin/python2 import sys from boto.s3.connection import S3Connection from boto.s3.lifecycle import Lifecycle, Expiration, Transition, Rule

name = sys.argv[1]

conn = S3Connection() bucket = conn.get_bucket('penmanconsulting-server-backups') lifecycle = bucket.get_lifecycle_config()

Eday = Expiration( days=7 ) Eweek = Expiration( days=28 ) Emonth = Expiration( days=365 ) Tmonth = Transition( days=1, storage_class='GLACIER' ) Tyear = Transition( days=1, storage_class='GLACIER' )

lifecycle.append( Rule( name+'-daily', '{host}/monthly/'.format( host=name ), 'Enabled', expiration=Eday )) lifecycle.append( Rule( name+'-weekly', '{host}/monthly/'.format( host=name ), 'Enabled', expiration=Eweek )) lifecycle.append( Rule( name+'-monthly', '{host}/monthly/'.format( host=name ), 'Enabled', expiration=Emonth, transition=Tmonth )) lifecycle.append( Rule( name+'-yearly', '{host}/yearly/'.format( host=name ), 'Enabled', transition=Tyear ))

not conditional, so that lifecycle rules can be updated.

bucket.configure_lifecycle(lifecycle) print "Lifecycle applied."

print "-----" print lifecycle.to_xml()