AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate SAA-C03 Practice Question
Your client's document-management system stores confidential financial records in an Amazon S3 bucket. Company policy mandates that any record older than one year must be permanently deleted to comply with data-retention rules. What is the simplest way to enforce this requirement with minimal ongoing administration?
Configure an S3 Lifecycle rule that expires objects 365 days after creation.
Use AWS Backup to create a backup plan that deletes backups of the bucket after one year.
Apply an Amazon S3 Glacier Vault Lock policy that enforces a one-year retention period.
Enable S3 Intelligent-Tiering so that objects automatically move to archive tiers after 365 days.
Amazon S3 Lifecycle supports an Expiration action that permanently deletes objects after a specified number of days since creation. Creating a lifecycle rule that expires objects 365 days after creation automatically deletes both existing and future objects once they reach that age, satisfying the one-year retention policy without additional tooling. Other options either transition (not delete) the data, manage backups rather than the primary objects, or apply to Glacier Vaults instead of the S3 bucket itself.
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