Enable Versioning for S3 Bucket

🎯 Objective

Enable versioning for an Amazon S3 bucket to protect data from accidental deletion or modification.

Versioning allows S3 to store multiple versions of an object in the same bucket.

🔐 What is S3 Versioning?

S3 Versioning keeps a history of every object stored in the bucket.

Benefits

Example

file.txt (version 1)

file.txt (version 2)

file.txt (version 3)

🛠️ Enable Versioning (AWS Console)

1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console: https://console.aws.amazon.com/

1. Open Amazon S3

1. Open the bucket: nautilus-s3-RAN

1. Enable versioning

1. Go to the Properties tab

1. Scroll to Bucket Versioning

1. Click Edit

1. Select Enable

1. Click Save changes

🔍 Verify

Confirm the bucket shows: Bucket Versioning: Enabled

⚠️ Important notes