Python 脚本将文件从 ec2 windows 实例复制到 ec2 linux 实例

Question

I have a requirement where I need to create and schedule a python script to copy a few files from windows ec2 instance to linux ec2 instance once the instances are provisioned.

Can you please advice how to accomplish this?

Answer 1

Amazon EC2 instances are just like normal computers. So, if you had a Windows computer on your desk and a Linux computer beside it, think about how you would copy files between the two computers and you can do the same thing with Amazon EC2.

Frankly, sending files 'to' a computer can be quite difficult due to security limitations and having to have some way of 'sharing' file systems, such as sharing a network drive.

A much easier way would be to have the Windows instance copy the files to an Amazon S3 bucket , and then have the Linux instance download the files from S3 . You can easily copy the files by using the AWS Command-Line Interface (CLI) .

This method avoids all the problems with security, sharing protocols and coping with different operating systems.