By default, your S3 bucket in AWS will have versioning disabled. The following link explains the different S3 storage classes.
There are three S3 versioning states that you should be aware of. Once you enable versioning on your bucket, you can’t go back to unversioned, but rather just the suspended state.
- unversioned (the default)
- versioning-enabled
- versioning-suspended
Enabling versioning is relatively easy. Be aware that there is a cost associated with this as additional data is stored.
To view the versioning state of a S3 bucket, you can use any of the following tools.
- View the S3 bucket details through the console
- Request bucket status over HTTP
- AWS SDK Boto3
- Cloud Formation
- Other tools such as Terraform AWS Provider
