Example aws cli commands for S3 service

IMPORTANT: bucket names cannot have UPPERCASE letters

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