S3 Object Lock for WORM
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S3 Object Lock for WORM is an Amazon S3 feature that enforces write-once-read-many data retention, preventing objects from being deleted or overwritten for a specified period to help meet compliance and regulatory requirements.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| PutObjectLegalHold API | 1 |
| PutObjectRetention API | 1 |
| S3 Object Lock | 1 |
| S3 Object Lock for WORM canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4600434 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: S3 Object Lock for WORM Context triple: [Amazon S3, supportsSecurityFeature, S3 Object Lock for WORM]
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A.
S3 Glacier Deep Archive
S3 Glacier Deep Archive is an Amazon S3 storage class designed for extremely low-cost, long-term data archiving and digital preservation with very infrequent access.
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B.
S3 Object Lambda
S3 Object Lambda is an Amazon S3 feature that lets you process and transform data as it is retrieved from S3, so applications can get customized versions of objects without changing existing workflows.
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C.
S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval
S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval is an Amazon S3 storage class designed for long-lived, rarely accessed data that still requires millisecond retrieval times at low cost.
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D.
S3 Access Analyzer for S3
S3 Access Analyzer for S3 is an AWS security feature that continuously analyzes Amazon S3 bucket access policies to identify and highlight buckets and objects that are publicly or cross-account accessible.
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E.
S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage (legacy)
S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage (legacy) is an older Amazon S3 storage class designed for noncritical, easily reproducible data, offering lower durability and cost than standard S3 storage.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: S3 Object Lock for WORM Target entity description: S3 Object Lock for WORM is an Amazon S3 feature that enforces write-once-read-many data retention, preventing objects from being deleted or overwritten for a specified period to help meet compliance and regulatory requirements.
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A.
S3 Glacier Deep Archive
S3 Glacier Deep Archive is an Amazon S3 storage class designed for extremely low-cost, long-term data archiving and digital preservation with very infrequent access.
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B.
S3 Object Lambda
S3 Object Lambda is an Amazon S3 feature that lets you process and transform data as it is retrieved from S3, so applications can get customized versions of objects without changing existing workflows.
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C.
S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval
S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval is an Amazon S3 storage class designed for long-lived, rarely accessed data that still requires millisecond retrieval times at low cost.
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D.
S3 Access Analyzer for S3
S3 Access Analyzer for S3 is an AWS security feature that continuously analyzes Amazon S3 bucket access policies to identify and highlight buckets and objects that are publicly or cross-account accessible.
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E.
S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage (legacy)
S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage (legacy) is an older Amazon S3 storage class designed for noncritical, easily reproducible data, offering lower durability and cost than standard S3 storage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Amazon S3 feature
ⓘ
WORM (write-once-read-many) technology ⓘ data protection mechanism ⓘ |
| allows | privileged users to override in governance mode ⓘ |
| appliesTo | individual object versions ⓘ |
| category |
cloud storage security feature
ⓘ
data governance feature ⓘ |
| compatibleWith | S3 Versioning ⓘ |
| configuredBy |
PutObjectLegalHold API
ⓘ
linked to:
S3 Object Lock for WORM
PutObjectRetention API ⓘ
linked to:
S3 Object Lock for WORM
bucket creation parameters ⓘ |
| doesNotAllow | shortening retention in compliance mode ⓘ |
| doesNotProtect | objects without retention or legal hold ⓘ |
| enforces | WORM semantics ⓘ |
| hasMode |
compliance mode
ⓘ
governance mode ⓘ |
| helpsPrevent |
accidental deletion of records
ⓘ
malicious deletion of records ⓘ |
| helpsWith |
CFTC recordkeeping requirements
ⓘ
FINRA record retention requirements ⓘ SEC Rule 17a-4(f) compliance ⓘ general WORM storage regulations ⓘ |
| integratesWith |
AWS CLI
ⓘ
AWS Management Console ⓘ AWS SDKs ⓘ |
| prevents |
object deletion during retention period
ⓘ
object overwrite during retention period ⓘ |
| providedBy | Amazon Web Services ⓘ |
| requires | S3 Versioning to be enabled ⓘ |
| runsOn | Amazon S3 ⓘ |
| scope | applies only to locked object versions ⓘ |
| supports |
auditable retention settings
ⓘ
bucket-level configuration ⓘ default retention settings ⓘ immutability of protected object versions ⓘ legal hold flags ⓘ object-level configuration ⓘ per-bucket Object Lock configuration ⓘ per-object override of default retention ⓘ per-object retention settings ⓘ retention period in days ⓘ retention period in years ⓘ write-once-read-many retention ⓘ |
| usedFor |
compliance requirements
ⓘ
data retention policies ⓘ legal hold scenarios ⓘ records management ⓘ regulatory requirements ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: S3 Object Lock for WORM Description of subject: S3 Object Lock for WORM is an Amazon S3 feature that enforces write-once-read-many data retention, preventing objects from being deleted or overwritten for a specified period to help meet compliance and regulatory requirements.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: S3 Object Lock for WORM
linked to: S3 Object Lock for WORM
linked to: S3 Object Lock for WORM