I am experiencing issues with lifecycle rules

Reviewed on July 16, 2025

Before you start

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• Owner status or IAM permissions allowing you to perform actions in the intended Organization

Problem

I am experiencing issues with the lifecycle rules of my Scaleway Object Storage bucket.

Cause

• Lifecycle rules are not properly set

• Spaces are present in the prefixes or tags of your objects

• You reached the limit of 500,000 lifecycle jobs per day

Possible solutions

• Make sure that lifecycle rules are properly set in the Scaleway console.

• Make sure that the prefixes and tags of your objects do not contain any spaces.

• If you reached the limit of 500,000 jobs per day, you can transition or delete objects manually.

• For expiration rules, you can use the HeadObject command to check which rule is applied to a specific object. The x-amz-expiration header should return the expiration date and rule ID.

Going further

• Refer to the lifecycle rules documentation for more information.

• If you did not manage to identify the error and solve it by yourself, open a support ticket, and provide as many details as possible, along with the necessary information below:

  • Object Storage Endpoint (e.g. s3.fr-par.scw.cloud)
  • Bucket name
  • Object name (if the request concerns an object)
  • Request type (PUT, GET, etc.)
  • HTTP status code
  • Date and time (timestamp)
  • User-agent (SDK, client, console, etc.)
  • Transaction ID (if possible)
  • Log / trace of the error (if possible)