Interaction

S3 Stands for Simple Storage Service

URL Format:

http://BUCKET_NAME.s3.DOMAIN.com or https://BUCKET_NAME.s3.DOMAIN.com

http://s3.DOMAIN.com/BUCKET_NAME

Tools: awscli

Interaction:

1) List contents inside S3 Bucket

aws --endpoint-url=http://s3.DOMAIN.com s3 ls 

2) List contents inside the specified bucket

aws --endpoint-url=http://s3.DOMAIN.com s3 ls s3://BUCKET_NAME 

3) Downloads any files within the specified bucket

aws --endpoint-url=http://s3.DOMAIN.com s3 sync s3://BUCKET_NAME . 

In order to interact in any way with a cloud service, first we have to authenticate with it.

awscli looks for ~/.aws/credentials file to locate the keys in order to authenticate to the cloud services.

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In some cases, we can use any random credentials to authenticate by simply typing: aws configure