Life cycle rules on S3 for existing items

Question

I have made a life cycle rule on my existing S3 buckets that put objects older than 60 days in Glacier Instant Retrieval. How can I apply this rule to items already in my bucket? Looks like it won't trigger for existing items.

kentrad · Answer

The rule will be applied to existing objects but there are some limitations. See: [Supported transitions and related constraints
](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/lifecycle-transition-general-considerations.html#lifecycle-general-considerations-transition-sc). For instance:

```
Objects smaller than 128 KB – For the following transitions, Amazon S3 does not transition objects that are smaller than 128 KB:
* From the S3 Standard or S3 Standard-IA storage classes to S3 Intelligent-Tiering or S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval.
* From the S3 Standard storage class to S3 Standard-IA or S3 One Zone-IA.
```

Life cycle rules on S3 for existing items

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