COS's object lock feature allows you to set a retention period for your objects to prevent them from being overwritten or deleted for a fixed amount of time and your objects can still be accessed immediately. This document describes how to enable object lock in the COS console.
3. Click the target bucket to enter the bucket list page.
4. Click Security Management > Object Lock on the left, find the Object Lock configuration item, click Edit, and toggle the feature on.
5. Enter the retention period in the configuration window and click Save.
Retention period: It must be a positive integer and can only be extended but not shortened.
6. In the pop-up window, click OK.
After the configuration, you can click File List > the desired file > Details to view the date (local time) on which the object lock rule will expire.
Note:
The object lock feature is now only available to customers in the allowlist. To use this feature, contact us.
