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AWS CLI

Generate Credentials​

Navigate to the Access Keys page.

Access KeysAccess Keys

Click Create Access Key.

Create Access KeyCreate Access Key

Copy your Access Key, Secret Key to a safe location or download them.

Now you are ready to configure AWS CLI.

Configure AWS CLI with your credentials​

Make sure AWS CLI is installed on your machine. To install it follow the instructions.

Verify your AWS CLI version by running aws --version in your terminal. AWS CLI current version is version 2. If you are using AWS CLI v1, you will need to install a plugin to be able to define the endpoint.

➜ ~ aws configure

AWS Access Key ID \[\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*7aua\]: <your-access-key\>

AWS Secret Access Key \[\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*lu2i\]: <your-secret-key\>

Default region name \[us-east-1\]:

Default output format \[None\]:

Region based storage endpoints​

eu.storage.nodeshift.com
us.storage.nodeshift.com
asia.storage.nodeshift.com

Make a Bucket​

aws s3 --endpoint-url=https://eu.storage.nodeshift.com mb s3://mycoolbucket

Display Buckets​

aws s3 --endpoint-url=https://eu.storage.nodeshift.com ls

Copy a file​

aws s3 --endpoint-url=https://eu.storage.nodeshift.com cp /tmp/file.zip s3://mycoolbucket

List files in the Bucket​

aws s3 --endpoint-url=https://eu.storage.nodeshift.com ls s3://mycoolbucket

Copy a file from the Bucket​

aws s3 --endpoint-url=https://eu.storage.nodeshift.com cp s3://mycoolbucket/file.zip /tmp/archive.zip

Delete the Bucket​

aws s3 --endpoint-url=https://eu.storage.nodeshift.com rb s3://mycoolbucket/

Delete a non-empty Bucket​

aws s3 --endpoint-url=https://eu.storage.nodeshift.com rb --force s3://mycoolbucket/