Managing S3 Versioning for your S3 on Outposts bucket - Amazon Simple Storage Service
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Managing S3 Versioning for your S3 on Outposts bucket

When enabled, S3 Versioning saves multiple distinct copies of an object in the same bucket. You can use S3 Versioning to preserve, retrieve, and restore every version of every object stored in your Outposts buckets. S3 Versioning helps you recover from unintended user actions and application failures.

Amazon S3 on Outposts buckets have three versioning states:

  • Unversioned – If you’ve never enabled or suspended S3 Versioning on your bucket, it is unversioned and returns no S3 Versioning status. For more information about S3 Versioning, see Using versioning in S3 buckets.

  • Enabled – Enables S3 Versioning for the objects in the bucket. All objects added to the bucket receive a unique version ID. Objects that already existed in the bucket at the time that you enable versioning have a version ID of null. If you modify these (or any other) objects with other operations, such as PutObject, the new objects get a unique version ID.

  • Suspended – Suspends S3 Versioning for the objects in the bucket. All objects added to the bucket after versioning is suspended receive the version ID null. For more information, see Adding objects to versioning-suspended buckets.

After you enable S3 Versioning for an S3 on Outposts bucket, it can never return to an unversioned state. However, you can suspend versioning. For more information about S3 Versioning, see Using versioning in S3 buckets.

For each object in your bucket, you have a current version and zero or more noncurrent versions. To reduce storage costs, you can configure your bucket S3 Lifecycle rules to expire noncurrent versions after a specified time period. For more information, see Creating and managing a lifecycle configuration for your Amazon S3 on Outposts bucket.

The following examples show you how to enable or suspend versioning for an existing S3 on Outposts bucket by using the Amazon Web Services Management Console and the Amazon Command Line Interface (Amazon CLI). To create a bucket with S3 Versioning enabled, see Creating an S3 on Outposts bucket.

Note

The Amazon Web Services account that creates the bucket owns it and is the only one that can commit actions to it. Buckets have configuration properties, such as Outpost, tag, default encryption, and access point settings. The access point settings include the virtual private cloud (VPC), the access point policy for accessing the objects in the bucket, and other metadata. For more information, see S3 on Outposts specifications.

To edit the S3 Versioning settings for your bucket

  1. Sign in to the Amazon Web Services Management Console and open the Amazon S3 console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/s3/.

  2. In the left navigation pane, choose Outposts buckets.

  3. Choose the Outposts bucket that you want to enable S3 Versioning for.

  4. Choose the Properties tab.

  5. Under Bucket Versioning, choose Edit.

  6. Edit the S3 Versioning settings for the bucket by choosing one of the following options:

    • To suspend S3 Versioning and stop the creation of new object versions, choose Suspend.

    • To enable S3 Versioning and save multiple distinct copies of each object, choose Enable.

  7. Choose Save changes.

To enable or suspend S3 Versioning for your bucket by using the Amazon CLI, use the put-bucket-versioning command, as shown in the following examples. To use these examples, replace each user input placeholder with your own information.

For more information, see put-bucket-versioning in the Amazon CLI Reference.

Example : To enable S3 Versioning
aws s3control put-bucket-versioning --account-id 123456789012 --bucket arn:aws:s3-outposts:region:123456789012:outpost/op-01ac5d28a6a232904/bucket/example-outposts-bucket --versioning-configuration Status=Enabled
Example : To suspend S3 Versioning
aws s3control put-bucket-versioning --account-id 123456789012 --bucket arn:aws:s3-outposts:region:123456789012:outpost/op-01ac5d28a6a232904/bucket/example-outposts-bucket --versioning-configuration Status=Suspended