How to upload files and folders to AWS EC2 instance?

Question

I use SSH to connect to my Ubuntu instance. With SSH I can administer files and folders on the instance, but how do I upload files and folders from my local machine to the instance?

Is it possible to do right from SSH session, without using SFTP clients?

Answer 1

You can try kitten utility which is a wrapper around boto3. You can easily upload/download files and run commands on EC2 server or on multiple servers at once for that matter.

kitten put -i ~/.ssh/key.pem cat.jpg /tmp [SERVER NAME][SERVER IP] 

Where server name is e.g ubuntu or ec2-user etc.

This will upload cat.jpg file to /tmp directory of server

Answer 2

Just to add a bit more detail to the scp command (included in OSx and most linux/unix):

scp -i myssh.pem local_file [email protected]:/home/username 

Obviously - replace the pem file with the one used for ssh access. Obviously replace "username" and "200.200.200.." with valid values for your setup.