Automatically delete old items from s3 bucket

Question

Is there an easy way to set up a bucket in s3 to automatically delete files older than x days?

Answer 1

No, S3 is just a datastore. You'll need to use some outside client to periodically delete the old files.

Answer 2

Amazon has meanwhile introduced S3 lifecycles (see the introductory blog post Amazon S3 - Object Expiration), where you can specify a maximum age in days for objects in a bucket - see Object Expiration for details on its usage via the S3 API or the AWS Management Console.

Answer 3

You can use s3cmd to write a script to run through your bucket and delete files based on a precondition.

You'll need to write some code (bash, python) on top of it.

You can download s3cmd from http://s3tools.org/s3cmd