amazon-s3 Getting started with amazon-s3 AWS CLI S3 Commands List

Example

List of commonly used S3 AWS CLI Commands

Create Bucket

aws s3 mb s3://bucket-name

Remove Bucket

aws s3 rb s3://bucket-name

List Buckets

aws s3 ls

List contents inside the bucket

aws s3 ls s3://bucket-name

List Bucket with a path

aws s3 ls s3://bucket-name/path

Copy file

aws s3 cp file.txt s3://my-bucket/ 

Synchronize files

aws s3 sync . s3://my-bucket/path

Delete local file

rm ./MyFile1.txt

Attempt sync without --delete option - nothing happens

aws s3 sync . s3://my-bucket/path

Sync with deletion - object is deleted from bucket

aws s3 sync . s3://my-bucket/path --delete

Delete object from bucket

aws s3 rm s3://my-bucket/path/MySubdirectory/MyFile3.txt

Sync with deletion - local file is deleted

aws s3 sync s3://my-bucket/path . --delete

Sync with Infrequent Access storage class

aws s3 sync . s3://my-bucket/path --storage-class STANDARD_IA

Copy MyFile.txt in current directory to s3://my-bucket/path

aws s3 cp MyFile.txt s3://my-bucket/path/

Move all .jpg files in s3://my-bucket/path to ./MyDirectory

aws s3 mv s3://my-bucket/path ./MyDirectory --exclude '*' --include '*.jpg' --recursive

List the contents of my-bucket

aws s3 ls s3://my-bucket

List the contents of path in my-bucket

aws s3 ls s3://my-bucket/path

Delete s3://my-bucket/path/MyFile.txt

aws s3 rm s3://my-bucket/path/MyFile.txt

Delete s3://my-bucket/path and all of its contents

aws s3 rm s3://my-bucket/path --recursive