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by aclelland 1798 days ago
The last time I looked at BB S3 API they didn't offer the lifecycle controls that AWS over. Mainly the ability to remove old versions of files after a period of time and we didn't want to roll our own expiry solution. Might be worth looking again though.
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Yep, B2 does offer this capability now. They've been working hard to add S3-compatible/similar features.

"Lifecycle rules instruct the B2 service to automatically hide and/or delete old files. You can set up rules to do things like delete old versions of files 30 days after a newer version was uploaded."

https://www.backblaze.com/b2/docs/lifecycle_rules.html

Art from Backblaze here...Thanks for the feedback! As treesknees points out, we currently support lifecycle rules with our B2 Native API and our web application - those are available right now if you need to do it ASAP. https://www.backblaze.com/b2/docs/lifecycle_rules.html