| command |
purpose |
remarks |
| aws s3api get-bucket-versioning --bucket mybucket |
to check versioning status (enabled or disabled) |
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| aws s3api put-bucket-versioning --bucket mybucket --versioning-configuration Status=Enabled |
to enable versioning |
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| aws s3 sync files s3://mybucket/subfolder |
to synchronize between source (local directory named files) and destination (s3 bucket named mybucket) |
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| aws s3 sync files s3://mybucket/files --delete |
to synchronize and delete files at the destination that are not found at the source |
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| aws s3api list-object-versions --bucket mybucket |
to list the object version information at the S3 bucket, includes information such as VersionId |
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aws s3api get-object --bucket mybucket --key files/file1.txt --version-id <versionid for object files/file1.txt> files/file1.txt
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To recover files/file1.txt locally from the versioned copy in s3 bucket
source is the object files/file1.txt with a particular version
save to the local destination path files/file1.txt
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| aws s3 ls s3://mybucket/files/ |
to list the contents of a folder in a bucket |
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aws s3 cp test.txt s3://mybucket/test2.txt
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copy local file test.txt to s3 bucket mybucket and name it as test2.txt |
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| aws s3 ls |
list your buckets |
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| aws s3 ls s3://mybucket --recursive --human-readable --summarize |
list recursively and in human readable format |
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| aws s3 mb s3://mynewerbucket |
create new bucket named mynewerbucket |
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| aws s3 mb s3://mynewerbucket --region us-west-1 |
create the bucket in a specific region.
Note S3 service is Global, but buckets are region specific |
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