Copying files from S3 buckets in Ansible

Question

I was wondering whether the copy module can be used to deploy my installation tarball from an AWS S3 bucket to an EC2 instance?

Accepted Answer

There is s3 for this task:

Excerpt from examples:

```
# Simple GET operation
- s3: bucket=mybucket object=/my/desired/key.txt dest=/usr/local/myfile.txt mode=get
```

But this requires `boto` and AWS credentials on target host.

You may want to make download url with `mode=geturl` with local action and then fetch it on your target box.

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