How to transfer files between AWS s3 and AWS ec2

Question

I am using AWS ec2 instance. On this instance I'm resulting some files. These operations are done by user data. Now I want to store those files on s3 by writing code in user data itself. - So how can I store those files on s3? - Have any tutorials on it?

Accepted Answer

Using the most recent AWS CLI (http://aws.amazon.com/cli/) you can use the following commands to copy files from your Ec2 Instance or even you local machine to S3 storage.

```
aws s3 cp myfolder s3://mybucket/myfolder --recursive
```

You'll then get something like:

```
upload: myfolder/file1.txt to s3://mybucket/myfolder/file1.txt 
upload: myfolder/subfolder/file1.txt to s3://mybucket/myfolder/subfolder/file1.txt
```

If this is your first usage of the `aws` CLI tool then you'll need to run:

`aws configure`

This will ask you to enter your access key & secret along with specifying a default region.

How to transfer files between AWS s3 and AWS ec2

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