Downloading an entire S3 bucket?

Question

I noticed that there doesn\'t seem to be an option to download an entire S3 bucket from the AWS Management Console.

Is there an easy way to grab everything in one of

Answer 1

As Neel Bhaat has explained in this blog, there are many different tools that can be used for this purpose. Some are AWS provided, where most are third party tools. All these tools require you to save your AWS account key and secret in the tool itself. Be very cautious when using third party tools, as the credentials you save in might cost you, your entire worth and drop you dead.

Therefore, I always recommend using the AWS CLI for this purpose. You can simply install this from this link. Next, run the following command and save your key, secret values in AWS CLI.

aws configure

And use the following command to sync your AWS S3 Bucket to your local machine. (The local machine should have AWS CLI installed)

aws s3 sync  

Examples:

1) For AWS S3 to Local Storage

aws s3 sync  

2) From Local Storage to AWS S3

aws s3 sync  

3) From AWS s3 bucket to another bucket

aws s3 sync