[mikeyla85]

Thanks for the information!

Re your first note -- because I assumed that this operation was being treated similarly to a move (which is a copy and delete in S3), I assumed that I would be dinged for the cost of copying (minimal when on the same location) but the original would be deleted.

Reference: https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?messageID=455101#j...

Second -- this makes sense to me that this is how it works. But I still don't understand why anyone would have a use case for this "Edit Storage Class" dialog box. Is there ever a moment in the administering of an object where you would want to duplicate that object but with a different storage class?

Unfortunately hiring a sysadmin is way out of our budget. We had a friend helping with some AWS stuff and they may have done some of this for us if I'd asked, but I do remember it being a fairly mind-numbing task and he wasn't co-located with the files.