Move files from Buckets to local site with PowerShell

Question

Hi everyone,

currently we are doing some testing regarding S3 buckets.
We have an on-premise environment with some windows servers and we want to exchange files between on-premise and our S3 buckets by using Windows PowerShell Scripts.

Actually, it is already working quite well. So we can read and write data to/from the buckets. 
However, we also need to MOVE the files after successfully transferred from bucket to our windows environment. Unfortunately I couldn’t find a “Move” Command so far. I can only read and after that I can execute the delete command but that’s not exactly what we need.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!
Aktuator

Accepted Answer

Have you looked in the s3 cli? You can try:
- [aws s3 mv](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/s3/mv.html)
- [aws s3 sync](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/s3/sync.html)

Answer

Thank you guys! I had a look at it and it looks like exactly what I needed. :-) 
Greetings!

Answer

Hi Aktuator,

If you don't have AWS Cli installed you can check the step-by-step here: [AWS Docs - AWS Cli Getting started](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/getting-started-install.html#getting-started-install-instructions). It has all the information you need to setup the AWS Cli in your Windows OS.

After installing it I recommend checking the [AWS Cli Documentation](https://awscli.amazonaws.com/v2/documentation/api/latest/index.html), more specifically, the [S3 commands](https://awscli.amazonaws.com/v2/documentation/api/latest/reference/s3/index.html). And just like AWS-User answered, the commands you are probably looking for are **aws s3 mv** and **aws s3 sync**.

I hope this helps.

Best regards,
Gabriel Bartholomeu

Move files from Buckets to local site with PowerShell

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