aws-cli-notes.md

AWS CLI Notes

Note: almost all commands allow a --dryrun option that when used will output what would have been done if it was not a dry run.

S3 Commands

Documentation: S3 sub-command

Get a listing of folders in a bucket

$ aws s3 ls 

Get a listing of what is in a folder

$ aws s3 ls myfolder

Upload a file

$ aws s3 cp my-local-file.txt s3://mybucket/

Download a file

$ aws s3 cp s3://mybucket/the-file.txt ./

Delete files

To delete a single file:

$ aws s3 rm s3://mybucket/the-file.txt

To remove all files in a bucket:

$ aws s3 rm s3://mybucket/ --recursive

To remove only files that match a glob pattern (note that we're excluding everything and then including just the glob that we want):

$ aws s3 rm s3://acadia-database-daily-backups --recursive --exclude "*" --include "*.sql.gz"

To remove all files except those that match a glob pattern:

$ aws s3 rm s3://acadia-database-daily-backups --recursive --exclude "*.bak"

Create a bucket

$ aws s3 mb s3://mybucket

Remove a bucket

$ aws s3 rb s3://mybucket

Syncing files

To grab everything from a bucket and sync to current directory:

$ aws s3 sync s3://acadia-database-daily-backups ./

To sync only certain files from bucket to local directory:

$ aws s3 sync s3://acadia-database-daily-backups ./ --exclude "*" --include "acadia-staging*"

Sync current local directory to S3:

$ aws s3 sync ./ s3://mybucket/

EC2 commands

Documentation: EC2 sub-command

Showing list of instances

$ aws ec2 describe-instances --profile acadia-admin --region us-west-2