The following command applies a lifecycle configuration to a bucket named ``my-bucket``::

  aws s3api put-bucket-lifecycle-configuration --bucket my-bucket --lifecycle-configuration  file://lifecycle.json

The file ``lifecycle.json`` is a JSON document in the current folder that specifies two rules::

  {
      "Rules": [
          {
              "ID": "Move rotated logs to Glacier",
              "Prefix": "rotated/",
              "Status": "Enabled",
              "Transitions": [
                  {
                      "Date": "2015-11-10T00:00:00.000Z",
                      "StorageClass": "GLACIER"
                  }
              ]
          },
          {
              "Status": "Enabled",
              "Prefix": "",
              "NoncurrentVersionTransitions": [
                  {
                      "NoncurrentDays": 2,
                      "StorageClass": "GLACIER"
                  }
              ],
              "ID": "Move old versions to Glacier"
          }
      ]
  }

The first rule moves files with the prefix ``rotated`` to Glacier on the specified date. The second rule moves old object versions to Glacier when they are no longer current. For information on acceptable timestamp formats, see `Specifying Parameter Values`_ in the *AWS CLI User Guide*.

.. _`Specifying Parameter Values`: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-using-param.html