Great news! I found a backup on my machine from 20171222 (when I did the migration). All packages have been restored. I also upgraded mdsbuilder to the latest CIEL (20181012). @reubenv, please proceed with the release from the 2nd point of Release Steps.
@cintiadr, are you saying that S3 backups shouldn’t have been deleted? The last backup I see for mdsbuilder on S3 is from May…
Thanks a ton, @raff ! This made my day(technically night here 
), I can now move ahead with the release!
Sort of.
Bucket openmrs-manual-backup doesn’t have a lifecycle. Whatever you put in there, should be there forever (or until someones deletes it).
Bucket openmrs-backups is for automated backups, and indeed, it’s kept for 6 months.
All clear, thanks! Let me push at least one backup to openmrs-manual-backup then!
In case you are wondering how you could have known that (without digging AWS console), they are created via terraform: https://github.com/openmrs/openmrs-contrib-itsm-terraform/blob/master/base-network/backup.tf
It’s also described in https://github.com/openmrs/openmrs-contrib-itsmresources/wiki/Backups-Strategy