Awsflow S3 File Operations

Upload and download files and folders to/from S3 with folder structure preservation.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when the user:

•Wants to upload one or multiple files to S3
•Wants to download one or multiple files from S3
•Needs to upload entire folders to S3 preserving directory structure
•Needs to download entire S3 prefixes/folders to local disk
•Asks about bulk file transfers to/from S3

Tool: S3FileOperationsTool

Execute S3 file operations for bulk transfers. ALWAYS provide params object.

Commands

UploadFile

Upload one or multiple local files to S3.

json

{
  "command": "UploadFile",
  "params": {
    "Bucket": "my-bucket",
    "LocalPaths": ["/path/to/file1.txt", "/path/to/file2.csv"],
    "S3KeyPrefix": "uploads/",
    "ContentType": "text/plain"
  }
}

Parameters:

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
Bucket	string	Yes	S3 bucket name
LocalPaths	array of strings	Yes	Array of local file paths to upload
S3KeyPrefix	string	No	S3 key prefix/folder to upload to
ContentType	string	No	MIME type for uploaded files

DownloadFile

Download one or multiple files from S3 to a local directory.

json

{
  "command": "DownloadFile",
  "params": {
    "Bucket": "my-bucket",
    "S3Keys": ["data/file1.csv", "data/file2.csv"],
    "LocalDirectory": "/path/to/local/dir"
  }
}

Parameters:

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
Bucket	string	Yes	S3 bucket name
S3Keys	array of strings	Yes	Array of S3 object keys to download
LocalDirectory	string	Yes	Local directory path to download to
PreserveStructure	boolean	No	Whether to preserve folder structure

UploadFolder

Upload local folders to S3 with preserved directory structure.

json

{
  "command": "UploadFolder",
  "params": {
    "Bucket": "my-bucket",
    "LocalPaths": ["/path/to/local/folder"],
    "S3KeyPrefix": "backups/",
    "PreserveStructure": true
  }
}

Parameters:

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
Bucket	string	Yes	S3 bucket name
LocalPaths	array of strings	Yes	Array of local folder paths to upload
S3KeyPrefix	string	No	S3 key prefix/folder to upload to
PreserveStructure	boolean	No	Whether to preserve folder structure

DownloadFolder

Download entire S3 prefixes/folders to local disk with preserved structure.

json

{
  "command": "DownloadFolder",
  "params": {
    "Bucket": "my-bucket",
    "S3KeyPrefixes": ["data/2024/", "data/2025/"],
    "LocalDirectory": "/path/to/local/dir",
    "PreserveStructure": true
  }
}

Parameters:

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
Bucket	string	Yes	S3 bucket name
S3KeyPrefixes	array of strings	Yes	Array of S3 key prefixes/folders to download
LocalDirectory	string	Yes	Local directory path to download to
PreserveStructure	boolean	No	Whether to preserve folder structure

Related Services

•S3Tool: For object-level operations (list, get, put, delete, copy), bucket configuration, S3 Select queries, and S3 Explorer — see the awsflow-s3 skill
•Lambda: Lambda functions commonly read/write S3 objects
•Glue: Glue crawlers catalog S3 data, ETL jobs process S3 files
•CloudFormation: S3 buckets and their configurations managed via stacks