SAA-C03 Q113 · Storage

Question

A media company stores customer-uploaded videos in an Amazon S3 bucket with the Standard storage class. The company wants to create an S3 Lifecycle configuration. The company will set the maximum retention time to 7 days. However, the configuration must delete any video that is more than 1 TB in size after 48 hours. What should a solutions architect do to meet these requirements?

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**Answer A** uses a single S3 Lifecycle configuration with two rules, which is the correct and cleanest approach:

1. **Requirement 1 — Delete videos >1 TB after 48 hours**: The first rule uses **ObjectSizeGreaterThan** filter with a value of 1 TB and sets expiration to 48 hours. This is a native S3 Lifecycle filter introduced in 2022 that allows rules to target objects based on their size.

2. **Requirement 2 — Delete all remaining videos after 7 days**: The second rule expires all objects after 7 days. This acts as the catch-all maximum retention policy.

**How the two rules interact**: For objects >1 TB, both rules technically apply. S3 Lifecycle follows the principle of the **most restrictive (earliest expiration) rule wins** when multiple rules overlap. So objects >1 TB are deleted af

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