How to move files from amazon ec2 to s3 bucket using command line

Question

In my amazon EC2 instance, I have a folder named uploads. In this folder I have 1000 images. Now I want to copy all images to my new S3 bucket. How can I do this?

Answer 1

First Option sm3cmd

Use s3cmd

s3cmd get s3://AWS_S3_Bucket/dir/file 

Take a look at this s3cmd documentation

if you are on linux, run this on the command line:

sudo apt-get install s3cmd 

or Centos, Fedore.

yum install s3cmd 

Example of usage:

s3cmd put my.file s3://pactsRamun/folderExample/fileExample 

Second Option

Using Cli from amazon

Update

Like @tedder42 said in the comments, instead of using cp, use sync.

Take a look at the following syntax:

aws s3 sync <source> <target> [--options] 

Example:

aws s3 sync . s3://my-bucket/MyFolder 

More information and examples available at Managing Objects Using High-Level s3 Commands with the AWS Command Line Interface