[StratusBen]

On this topic, it's always surprising to me how few people even seem to know about different storage classes on S3...or even intelligent tiering (which I know carries a cost to it, but allows AWS to manage some of this on your behalf which can be helpful for certain use-cases and teams).

We did an analysis of S3 storage levels by profiling 25,000 random S3 buckets a while back for a comparison of Amazon S3 and R2* and nearly 70% of storage in S3 was StandardStorage which just seems crazy high to me.

* https://www.vantage.sh/blog/the-opportunity-for-cloudflare-r...

[blurker]

I think that it's not just people not knowing about the lifecycle feature, but also that when they start putting data into a bucket they don't know what the lifecycle should be yet. Honestly I think overdoing lifecycle policies is a potentially bigger foot gun than not setting them. If you misuse glacier storage that will really cost you big $$$ quickly! And who wants to be the dev who deleted a bunch of data they shouldn't have?

Lifecycle policies are simple in concept, but it's actually not simple to decide what they should be in many cases.