A police records bureau stores cold case PDFs in Amazon S3 Standard even though they are almost never retrieved. Leadership wants to cut storage cost while keeping the objects durable in AWS for rare legal holds. Which approach best reduces cost?
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Short Explanation
Cold case files that sleep for years don’t need the “always grab me” S3 Standard rate. Lifecycle them down to Glacier Deep Archive and stop paying hot storage prices for ice-cold PDFs. Deleting against legal holds, triple-Region Standard copies, or bulkier TIFFs move cost the wrong way.
Full Explanation
S3 Lifecycle policies can transition objects to colder storage classes such as S3 Glacier Deep Archive, which is optimized for rarely accessed long-term retention at lower storage cost. That fits cold case PDFs that must remain durable but are seldom retrieved. Blanket deletion may violate retention needs; extra Standard replicas increase cost; expanding object size in Standard does not optimize storage spend. Lifecycle tiering is the cost-optimized storage pattern here.