AWS CLI Setup

• Install AWS Cli. Refer Here
• Chocolatey: choco install awscli -y
• Create an IAM User by following instructions from here

aws configure

# Enter Access Key, Secret Key and Region

S3 CLI

• AWS S3 has two CLI commands
  • aws s3
  • aws s3api

S3 CLI

• Available commands

  • cp => copy
  • ls => list
  • mb => make bucket
  • mv => move
  • rb => remove bucket
  • rm => remove
  • sync => sync source and destination

• aws cli syntax

aws s3 <s3 command> --param1 value 

• s3 bucket uri syntax: s3://<bucketname>

Examples

• Create bucket with name qts3bucketfromcli

aws s3 mb s3://qts3bucketfromcli

Exercise using AWS CLI

1. Create any s3 bucket

aws s3 mb s3://qts3fortesting-1

2. Copy a file from local machine to aws s3 bucket

aws s3 cp '.\Advanced Agile Material.docx' s3://qts3fortesting-1

3. Copy a folder from local machine to aws s3 bucket

aws s3 cp --recursive .\ec2\ s3://qts3fortesting-1

4. Create a directory with following files
   • 1.txt
   • 2.txt
   • 3.xml
   • 4.json
5. Copy all the files to s3 bucket except 3.xml

aws s3 cp ".\testing\" s3://qts3fortesting-1 --recursive --exclude 3.xml

6. Create one more s3 bucket and copy the contents of the above bucket to new bucket

aws s3 mb s3://qts3fortesting-2
 aws s3 cp s3://qts3fortesting-1/ s3://qts3fortesting-2 --recursive

7. remove the old bucket.

 aws s3 rb s3://qts3fortesting-1/ --force
 aws s3 rb s3://qts3fortesting-2/ --force