AWS CLI S3 Cheat Sheet

aws-cli-s3-cheet-sheet.md

Install awscli

brew install awscli

Configure AWS Create and download your credentials from AWS Web Console, then configure AWS on your machine

$ aws configure
AWS Access Key ID [None]: access-id-here
AWS Secret Access Key [None]: secret-key-here
Default region name [None]: region-name (us-west-2)
Default output format [None]: json

General Command Structure

aws <command> <subcommand> [options and parameters]

aws <command> help

aws <command> <subcommand> help

List all buckets

aws s3 ls

List all objects in a bucket

aws s3 ls s3://<name-of-bucket>

Copy object to a bucket

aws s3 cp <my-local-object> s3://<destination-bucket>

Copy object from a bucket to a local destination

aws s3 cp s3://<destination-bucket>/<object-key> <local-destination>

Remove object from a bucket

aws s3 rm s3://<name-of-bucket>/<object-key>

Make a new bucket

aws s3 mb s3://<name-of-bucket>

Remove a bucket

aws s3 rb s3://<name-of-bucket>

Sync a bucket to local

aws s3 sync <my-local-folder> s3://<name-of-bucket>

Get the details of an object in an S3 bucket given its object-key

aws s3api head-object --bucket <name-of-bucket> --key <object-key>

Filter by prefix the list of objects fron an S3 bucket

aws s3api list-objects-v2 --bucket <name-of-bucket> --prefix <object-key>

Filter by Size the list of objects in an S3 bucket

In this case, get all the Object keys with less than 2KB

aws s3api list-objects-v2 --bucket <name-of-bucket> --query ‘Contents[?Size<`2000`].[Key]’

Filter by Size and LastModified, the list of objects in an S3 bucket

In this case, get all the Object keys with less than 2KB and lastmodified on or later 2021-06-21T00:00:00

aws s3api list-objects-v2 --bucket <name-of-bucket> --query ’Contents[?(Size<=`2000` && LastModified>=`2021-06-21T00:00:00`)].[Key,Size]