Amazon s3 tutorial – Creating | Managing | Listing | Deleting Simple Storage bucket

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Today In this tutorial we are going to see How to work with s3 bucket from local system or ec2 instance. in this tutorial we are going to cover the following topics

  • How to setup aws sdk on window machin
  • How to setup access key and secrete key on windows machine
  • How to Create the bucket
  • How to List the all existing bucket
  • How to Delete the existing bucket

Install Aws Sdk on local/ec2 machine

To work with AWS services first you need to install the AWS sdk on your local or ec2 machine.

To download and install app sdk you can use the following link https://aws.amazon.com/getting-started/tools-sdks/

We are going to set up using AWS CLI so go to the above link and click on command line Tools and then click on AWS Cli and set install on local system

Download aws cli

Or you can refer to the following link: How to Installing, updating, and uninstalling the AWS CLI version 2

After installation, you can use the following command

aws --version

The above command will show you the version of the installed aws SDK

After installation of the AWS sdk, you need to configure the access key and secrete key. You will get this key from the IAM section or you can ask to account admin he will provide you the key.

How to configure access key and secrete key

To configure the access key and secrete key use the following step

Step1: Open the command prompt

Step2: Type the following command

aws configure

Once execute you need to enter the access key and secrete key

Aws configure

And Congratulation you have successful complete the AWS sdk setup.

How to create bucket

To create a bucket you need to execute the following command but before executing the command you need to know that the bucket name should be unique. if a bucket name is existing then the command will throw an error

aws s3 mb s3://bucket-name

in the above command MB stand for make bucket

Now your bucket will be created by the name of bucket-name

How to list bucket

if you don’t have direct access to AWS console but you have the developed access then you can list the all buckets from your local system using the following command

aws s3 ls

Following will the output for the above coomand

2021-08-30 17:26:08 my-bucket1
2021-08-30 18:45:47 my-bucket2

How to remove bucket

To remove the bucket use the following command. The command will permanently delete the bucket so use the command carefully.

aws s3 rb s3://bucket-name

rb stands for remove bucket. bucket-name will be your bucket name which you are willing to remove

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