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Amazon S3 minimum storage duration

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Amazon S3 minimum storage duration

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- [Instructor] We have discussed in our previous lectures that Amazon S3 Glacier provides a more cost-effective option to store your archive files. This storage class costs way less than its S3 Standard counterpart. However, there's a handful of scenarios in which this cost benefit is not applicable. Let's discover the different use cases where it is more cost-effective to use S3 Standard than S3 Glacier. In Amazon S3, there is a concept called minimum storage duration, which means that your objects must be stored in a particular storage class for a specific amount of time. You can remove or delete your objects, but you will still have to pay the remaining days of the mandatory minimum period. So if the minimum storage duration for a specific storage class is 30 days, you'll then be charged for the entire 30 days, even if you deleted your objects before 30 days. For example, you stored an object in the Amazon S3…

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