AWS CLI v2 — S3 (Simple Storage Service)

Overview

Complete reference for aws s3 (high-level) and aws s3api (low-level) subcommands in AWS CLI v2. Covers bucket management, object operations, storage classes, lifecycle rules, versioning, access policies, encryption, website hosting, and transfer acceleration.

Quick Reference — Common Workflows

Create bucket and upload

bash

aws s3 mb s3://my-bucket --region us-east-1
aws s3 cp local-file.txt s3://my-bucket/path/
aws s3 sync ./local-dir s3://my-bucket/prefix/ --delete

Download and list objects

bash

aws s3 ls s3://my-bucket/prefix/ --recursive
aws s3 cp s3://my-bucket/path/file.txt ./local-file.txt
aws s3 sync s3://my-bucket/prefix/ ./local-dir

Generate presigned URL

bash

aws s3 presign s3://my-bucket/path/file.txt --expires-in 3600

Set bucket policy

bash

aws s3api put-bucket-policy --bucket my-bucket --policy file://policy.json

Enable versioning

bash

aws s3api put-bucket-versioning --bucket my-bucket --versioning-configuration Status=Enabled

Configure lifecycle rule

bash

aws s3api put-bucket-lifecycle-configuration --bucket my-bucket --lifecycle-configuration file://lifecycle.json

Covered Command Groups

Group	Commands	CLI Service
High-Level	cp, mv, rm, sync, ls, mb, rb, presign, website	`aws s3`
Buckets	create, delete, head, list, get/put policy, versioning, lifecycle, encryption, logging, cors, website, acl, replication, accelerate, tagging	`aws s3api`
Objects	get, put, delete, copy, head, list-objects-v2, restore, select, presign, multipart uploads	`aws s3api`
Access Points	create, delete, get, list access points and policies	`aws s3control`

Command Reference

See references/index.md for the quick reference table and global options.

Group	File	Commands
High-Level Commands (`aws s3`)	`high-level-commands.md`	cp, mv, rm, sync, ls, mb, rb, presign, website
Bucket Management (`aws s3api`)	`bucket-management.md`	create-bucket, delete-bucket, head-bucket, list-buckets, get-bucket-location
Bucket Configuration	`bucket-configuration.md`	put-bucket-policy, get-bucket-policy, delete-bucket-policy, get-bucket-policy-status, put-bucket-versioning, get-bucket-versioning, put-bucket-lifecycle-configuration, get-bucket-lifecycle-configuration, delete-bucket-lifecycle, put-bucket-encryption, get-bucket-encryption, delete-bucket-encryption, put-bucket-logging, get-bucket-logging, put-bucket-cors, get-bucket-cors, delete-bucket-cors, put-bucket-website, get-bucket-website, delete-bucket-website, put-bucket-acl, get-bucket-acl, put-bucket-replication, get-bucket-replication, delete-bucket-replication, put-bucket-tagging, get-bucket-tagging, delete-bucket-tagging, put-bucket-notification-configuration, get-bucket-notification-configuration, put-public-access-block, get-public-access-block, delete-public-access-block, put-bucket-accelerate-configuration, get-bucket-accelerate-configuration
Object Operations	`object-operations.md`	put-object, get-object, delete-object, delete-objects, copy-object, head-object, list-objects-v2, list-object-versions, restore-object, get-object-acl, put-object-acl, get-object-tagging, put-object-tagging, delete-object-tagging, get-object-attributes
Multipart Uploads	`multipart-uploads.md`	create-multipart-upload, upload-part, upload-part-copy, complete-multipart-upload, abort-multipart-upload, list-multipart-uploads, list-parts