Lifecycle management
It's clear that archived files could quickly get out of hand and impact our billing unnecessarily. To avoid this, we can utilize lifecycle management policies. Lifecycle management configurations can be assigned to a bucket. These files are a set of rules that can be applied to current or future objects in the bucket. When any of the objects meet the guidelines of the configuration, Cloud Storage can perform actions automatically.
One of the most common use cases for using lifecycle management policies is when we want to downgrade the storage class of objects after a set period of time. For example, there may be a scenario where data needs to be accessed frequently up to 30 days after it is moved to Cloud Storage, and ...
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