Immediate deletion is hard. Retention policy is easy. At my company after 90 days the the backups are blown away. I presume Amazon S3 will take time to age out

Immediate deletion is hard. Retention policy is easy. At my company after 90 days the the backups are blown away. I presume Amazon S3 will take time to age out the data after I'm through with it, but they too will eventually delete it.