Access AWS S3 Bucket with AWS CLI

Pulling data from AWS S3 Bucket with two lines of code using AWS Command Line Interface (CLI)

Step 1

installing or updating AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI)

run the msiexec command to run the MSI installer (Window)

msiexec.exe /i https://awscli.amazonaws.com/AWSCLIV2.msi

Step 2

Confirm Installation, check AWS CLI version

run command

aws --version

output sample: aws-cli/2.4.5 Python/3.8.8 Windows/10 exe/AMD64 prompt/off

Step 3

setting up new configuration

aws configure AWS Access Key ID [None]: AWS Secret Access Key [None]: Default region name [None]: us-west-1 Default output format [None]: json

Step 4

check list of files in a specific bucket/folder

aws s3 ls s3://YOUR_BUCKET/YOUR_FOLDER/ --recursive --human-readable --summarize

Step 5

from the list of files in the folder, copy the file name and replace here

copying a file from a bucket to a local file (out file name after the path)

aws s3 cp s3://YOUR_BUCKET/YOUR_FOLDER/<fileName.fileType> <fileNameCopy.fileType>

**Only do step 1-3 once(the 1st first time) after that only follow step 4 and 5.