AWS S3 Object Lock

S3 Object Lock (Nov 2018) uses a write-once-read-many (WORM) model to store objects and can help prevent Amazon S3 objects from being deleted or overwritten for a fixed amount of time or indefinitely.

• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/object-lock.html

aws s3api put-object-lock-configuration

Retention period / Legal hold

News

• Nov 2023 Amazon S3 now supports enabling S3 Object Lock on existing buckets
• Nov 2018 AWS Announces Amazon S3 Object Lock in all AWS Regions

Related

• Write Once, Read Many (WORM)
• SEC 17a-4, CFTC, and FINRA
• Immutable Storage
• Read only
• Amazon S3 logging

See also

• Immutable Storage, WORM, AWS S3 Object Lock
• S3 security
• AWS S3, aws s3, aws s3api, aws s3control, s3:, Amazon S3 Storage Lens, AWS S3 replication, CRR, SSR, CAR, S3 Replication Time Control (S3 RTC), Website endpoint, Amazon Macie, Versioning, Lifecycle, Encryption, logging, Amazon S3 Inventory, Amazon S3 Batch Operations, Storage Classes, Amazon S3 clients, Terraform S3, AWS canned ACLs, Directory buckets, security

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/amazon-s3-enabling-object-lock-buckets/

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/s3-object-lock/