Amazon S3 to apply a default minimum object size for S3 Lifecycle transition rules
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The article discusses a change in Amazon S3 Lifecycle transition rules, which will apply a default minimum object size of 128 KB for transitioning objects to any S3 storage class.
Specifically, the article covers:
- Amazon S3 is applying a default minimum object size of 128 KB for S3 Lifecycle transition rules
- This change can help optimize transition costs for datasets with many small objects
- Users can override this default and customize the minimum object size for transition rules
- The change does not impact objects that have already transitioned using S3 Lifecycle
- The change is being deployed to all AWS Regions in the coming days
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