Amazon S3

Amazon Simple Storage Service 

This page focuses on S3 Bucket management via the AWS CLI. Follow the links for steps to achieve the same from the AWS Web Console.

Buckets

Create an S3 Bucket

aws s3 mb s3://mybucket --region eu-west-2

The bucket name must be globally unique i.e. unique across AWS not just your account.

List S3 Buckets

aws s3 ls 

Copy to an S3 Bucket

This recursively copies a directory and all files...

aws s3 cp mydirectory s3://mybucket --recursive --acl public-read

Empty an S3 Bucket

Delete from an S3 Bucket

Delete an S3 Bucket

aws s3 rb s3://mybucket

aws s3 rb s3://mybucket --force 

Using the --force option deletes all objects and subfolders in the bucket and then removes the bucket 

Access an S3 file by URL

The following URLS are equivalent...

https://s3.myregion.amazonaws.com/mybucket/myfolder/myfile.txt

https://mybucket.s3.myregion.amazonaws.com/myfolder/myfile.txt

Sync with an S3 Bucket

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