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How to use S3 or Glacier to support WORM?

Could someone please explain What exactly is WORM(Write Once Read Many) and how can I make S3 WORM bucket.

My basic understanding of WORM compliance is that you need to be able to write to disk, and then prevent the disk/drive/service from erasing or rewriting the data afterwards for a set period of time. This can be done easily with Glacier now, you reference a good link with. You could also probably do it in a marginal fashion with S3 - though someone will always have root/master creds.
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Thanks Stuart for the comment.
But, it still wouldn't meet our compliance requirement which I want to achieve using AWS services.

We've a compliance requirement where we require to figure out a way to make the disk that contains the highly confidential client data Non-rewritable and Non-erasable. if I'm not wrong is not possible with S3?

I came across a post which says that using AWS Glacier we can apply the Lock down policies on the bucket and make it Non-rewritable and Non-erasable and even Root user wouldn't be able to make any changes after the Lock Down policy is applied. Though I couldn't understand properly how does it work because if I apply the Lock Down policy and lock it then what if I want to give access to some business partners.
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