Lifecycle rules enable you to automate and manage expiration of files or objects in the Element Store. They can be used to manage the expiration of any data created and accessed as files via any supported client protocol as well as any data that was created as S3 objects.
A lifecycle rule defines expiration actions that are applied to a scope of elements within a view. They can expire elements a number of days after they are created, abort and remove incomplete S3 multipart uploads, and cleanup expired S3 object delete markers that can accumulate in versioned buckets. Each rule is defined for a specified scope of elements within a specified view. The scope can be defined by prefix (object prefix in S3 nomenclature, or part of the path in terms of file and directory nomenclature) and/or element size.