AWS CLI helpful commands

Using familiar syntax, you can view the contents of your S3 buckets in a directory-based listing.

$ aws s3 ls s3://mybucket
      LastWriteTime     Length Name
      -------------     ------ ----
                           PRE myfolder/
2013-09-03 10:00:00       1234 myfile.txt
...
You can perform recursive uploads and downloads of multiple files in a single folder-level command. The AWS CLI will run these transfers in parallel for increased performance.

$ aws s3 cp myfolder s3://mybucket/myfolder --recursive
upload: myfolder/file1.txt to s3://mybucket/myfolder/file1.txt
upload: myfolder/subfolder/file1.txt to s3://mybucket/myfolder/subfolder/file1.txt
...
A sync command makes it easy to synchronize the contents of a local folder with a copy in an S3 bucket.

$ aws s3 sync myfolder s3://mybucket/myfolder --exclude *.tmp
upload: myfolder/newfile.txt to s3://mybucket/myfolder/newfile.txt