Learn how to add a lifecyle or time-to-live (TTL) rule in the staging bucket.

1. In the AWS Console Home page, select S3.
2. In the Buckets page, select the bucket for which you want to create a lifecycle rule.
3. Select Management.
4. Select Create lifecycle rule.
5. In the Create lifecycle rule page, provide the rule name and data retention period.
   1. Lifecycle rule name: Enter the rule name.
   2. Choose a rule scope: Select Limit the scope of this rule using one or more filters to use the rule only for some files and then add a filter in the Prefix field. Select Apply to all objects in the bucket to use the same rule for all files in the bucket and then select the I acknowledge that this rule will apply to all objects in the bucket check box.
   3. Lifecycle rule actions: Select Expire current versions of objects.
   4. Days after object creation: Enter the number of days for which you want to retain data.
6. Select Create rule.