S3

There is no separate command in AWS CLI to find the number of objects in an S3 bucket but there is a workaround. Solution aws s3 […]

This is a pretty common requirement and here is the solution. Solution Let’s create a bucket named hirw-sample-aws-bucket first. [osboxes@wk1 ~]$ aws s3 mb s3://hirw-sample-aws-bucket Use […]

This post describes the differences in sync and cp operations in S3 and which one should be preferred. sync aws s3 sync copies any files that […]

There is no single command that can rename a S3 bucket. Mainly because S3 is not a filesystem and a bucket is not a typical folder […]

This is a simple and common problem or question with a simple answer. Solution Do a directory listing with recursive, human-readable and summarize options. You will […]

Each files we upload to S3 gets assigned a key and the key has the following structure [FOLDERNAME]/[FILENAME] A common problem is to search the objects […]

Amazon S3 is not a filesystem so there is no rename command to rename objects or files. However this is a well known workaround. Workaround Issue […]

How to fix “could not connect to the endpoint URL” issue in S3? Buckets are tied to regions in Amazon S3. So when we are using […]

Downloading an entire bucket or folder inside a bucket is quite straightforward with AWS CLI. Install AWS CLI from here  if you don’t have it already. […]

This is a very common requirement and it has an easy solution. Solution aws s3api get-object to get the object and use to –range option to […]

In this post we are going to see how to enable version on a bucket and then how to get a very specific version of a […]

EBS, S3 and Glacier are different storage options available in Amazon Web Services. They differ in cost, use case and purpose. Here is a super quick […]

The short answer is you can’t migrate a S3 bucket from one region to another. But there is a workaround to this. Workaround Create a new […]

In this post we are going to create a S3 policy to make the S3 bucket read-only. We will be denying all users access to create […]

You probably heard this – Amazon S3 is not a file system, it is an object storage. So in S3, there is no technical concept of […]