How to upload local system files in my Linux server to Amazon S3 Bucket using ssh?

Question

I am trying to upload a file which I have on my Linux server onto my AWS S3 bucket. Can anyone please advise on how to do so as I only find documentations which is related to upload the files to EC2 instead.

I do have the.pem certificate present on my server directory.

I tried to run the following command but it doesn't solve the issue

scp -i My_PEM_FILE.pem "MY_FILE_TO_BE_UPLOADED.txt" MY_USER@S3-INSTANCE.IP.ADDRESS.0.compute.amazonaws.com

Answer 1

It is not possible to upload to Amazon S3 by using SSH.

The easiest way to upload from anywhere to an Amazon S3 bucket is to use the AWS Command-Line Interface (CLI) :

aws s3 cp MY_FILE_TO_BE_UPLOADED.txt s3://my-bucket/

This will require an Access Key and a Secret Key to be stored via the aws configure command. You can obtain these keys from your IAM User in the IAM management console (Security Credentials tab).

See: aws s3 cp — AWS CLI Command Reference