Amazon S3 Lifecycle now prevents expiration and transition actions on objects that failed replication, helping you to coordinate replication configuration or permissions changes with actions defined in your lifecycle rules.

Incorrect permissions or replication configuration can prevent objects from being replicated. With this change, S3 Lifecycle no longer expires or transitions objects that have failed replication, even if they match one of the lifecycle rules that you have defined. Once you have corrected your replication configuration or permissions, you can use S3 Batch Replication to replicate objects that previously failed. After successful replication, S3 Lifecycle will automatically process these objects according to your configured rules.

This change applies automatically to all existing and new S3 Lifecycle configurations, across 37 AWS Regions, including the AWS China and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. We are in the process of deploying this change and plan to complete the deployment in the coming days. To learn more, visit S3 Lifecycle documentation and S3 Replication troubleshooting documentation.