Upload files and folder to S3 from Ubuntu 20.04 using AWS CLI 2

Applicable for Ubuntu 20.04 and its derivatives.

To make any API call to AWS, we need an IAM user with appropriate permissions. According to your purpose, create an IAM user and get the following

You can download a CSV file with this information provided by AWS after the creation of the IAM user.

Install curl if it is not installed on your machine. Also, you can use wget the default and preinstalled download manager for Ubuntu.

Download the AWS installation file

Go to the downloaded directory and extract the files

Now, run the installation file

This will install the AWS CLI 2 in your system.

To verify the installation, use

To configure your account

Now insert the access key id, secret access key, default region name, your desired output format.

This should configure the CLI with your account credentials.

You can test the configuration by invoking the following commands

This should return all the buckets of your region.

If you do not have a S3 bucket create one.

To upload a single file we use the following

Example:

To upload a folder along with all its files and folders, we can do the followings,

Example:

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