s3.md

s3

Today I learnt ...

... how to upload a file to an existing publicly available S3 bucket

2023-12-20T11:38:34+00:00

Use existing aws-cli to quickly put a file in the cloud and allow it to be downloaded without auth

Resources

• AWS CLI command reference : cp
  • https://awscli.amazonaws.com/v2/documentation/api/latest/reference/s3/cp.html
• Granting read-only permission to an anonymous user with a bucket policy
  • https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/example-bucket-policies.html#example-bucket-policies-anonymous-user

Prerequisites

• install aws-cli
  • https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/cli-chap-welcome.html
• have access credentials at the default profile
  • A publicly available S3 bucket

Recipe

1. Get name of S3 bucket

2. Read into a bash variable

3. Use aws-cli cp to upload

   aws s3 cp test.txt s3://howapped-storage-bucket-howappedstoragebucket-5rdjdikttg7h/test.txt