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How to Change Storage Type of S3 Objects?

Now Bucket Explorer facilitates you to change the Storage type of S3 object(s) as a REDUCED REDUNDANCY STORAGE or STANDARD Class Type, By default S3 Object have STANDARD Storage class Type .

You can easily check storage type of existing S3 object in Properties window and you can also easily identify the object(s) having storage class type REDUCED REDUNDANCY . These will appear with different color in object(s) listing. Acl and Metadata are preserved on updating storage type.

how to change storage type for s3 object(s)

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Update the storage type for all objects of a bucket:
  1. Run Bucket Explorer as usual.
  2. All the buckets get listed.
  3. Now select a bucket for which you want to change storage type of objects.
  4. Choose Update Storage Type option form right click.
  5. It opens “ Update Storage Type ” window.
  6. Enable the check box named Use reduced Redundancy Storage .
  7. It will set the Storage class to REDUCED_REDUNDANCY for that object.
  8. To change the storage class to STANDARD , you need to disable the same check box.
  9. Click on “Update ”.
  10. It starts a queue having all the objects of the selected bucket.
  11. When the queue processes get finished, it shows the statistics report for the status of the processes.
  12. Now Refresh the object table and check the result by checking the property of any object for which you have changed storage type.
  13. The property named “ Storage-class ” has been updated with value as “REDUCED_REDUNDANCY ” or STANDARD . In order to get result you need to refresh the object table once.

Update the storage type of selected object(s):

  1. Run Bucket Explorer as usual.
  2. All the buckets get listed.
  3. Now select a bucket.
  4. All the objects of selected bucket get listed.
  5. Select more than one object from objects' list table for which you want to update the storage type.
  6. Choose Update Storage Type option from right click.
  7. It opens “ Update Storage Type ” window.
  8. Enable the check box named Use reduced Redundancy Storage . It will set the Storage class to REDUCED_REDUNDANCY for selected objects.
  9. To change the storage class to STANDARD ,  you need to disable the same check box.
  10. Click on “ Update ”. It starts a queue having all the objects of the selected bucket.
  11. When the queue processes get finished, it shows the statistics report for the status of the processes.
  12. Now Refresh the object table and check the result by checking the property of any object for which you have changed storage type.
  13. The property named “ Storage-class ” has been updated with value as “ REDUCED_REDUNDANCY ” or STANDARD . In order to get result you need to refresh the object table once.

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