Object Versioning
Explore how to enable and manage object versioning in Amazon S3 buckets to safeguard data. Understand versioning states, MFA delete, and how to retrieve or delete specific object versions. This lesson helps you protect your data by tracking and restoring previous versions efficiently.
Versioning is a practice in software development and data management that involves assigning unique identifiers or labels to different versions of a piece of software, a file, or a dataset. This enables tracking changes over time, maintaining a history of modifications, and facilitating collaboration among multiple contributors.
In Amazon S3, versioning enables the storage of multiple versions of an object in a bucket. This helps protect against accidental deletions or overwrites, and it can restore previous versions.
Enabling versioning on buckets
By default, versioning is disabled in S3 buckets. We can enable the versioning while creating a bucket. Also, we can enable or disable the versioning of an existing bucket. Therefore, a bucket can be in one of the three states:
Unversioned: We disable the versioning of the bucket while creating it.
Versioning-enabled: We enable the versioning ...