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How to rename files and folder in Amazon S3?

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Can you rename a folder in AWS S3?

To rename a folder in an S3 bucket, you have to: Open the AWS S3 console and click on your bucket's name. In the Objects tab, optionally use the search input to find your folder. Click on the checkbox next to your folder's name. Click on the Actions button and select Move.

How do you rename a file in S3?

There is no direct method to rename the file in s3. what do you have to do is copy the existing file with new name (Just set the target key) and delete the old one.

Can you rename S3 object?

1 Answer. You can not rename bucket functionality for S3 because there are technically no folders in S3 so we have to handle every file within the bucket. You will have to create a new bucket, copy the contents from the new bucket and delete the old bucket.

Can you rename an S3 bucket?

An Amazon S3 bucket is owned by the AWS account that created it. Bucket ownership is not transferable to another account. When you create a bucket, you choose its name and the AWS Region to create it in. After you create a bucket, you can't change its name or Region.


I just tested this and it works:

aws s3 --recursive mv s3://<bucketname>/<folder_name_from> s3://<bucket>/<folder_name_to>

There is no direct method to rename a file in S3. What you have to do is copy the existing file with a new name (just set the target key) and delete the old one.


aws s3 cp s3://source_folder/ s3://destination_folder/ --recursive
aws s3 rm s3://source_folder --recursive

You can use the AWS CLI commands to mv the files