How to edit files in AWS S3 in the browser?

Jörg Rech picture Jörg Rech · Dec 29, 2012 · Viewed 33.4k times · Source

I have hosted my Homepage over Amazon's S3 system. In order to change information on the page, currently, I have to change the file on my computer and upload the new version. However, I would like to directly change the file in the S3 bucket within a browser (to change it anywhere).

Is there a cloud-based text editor that can use S3 as a "file system" and would allow me to change text files (e.g., html, css, js, etc.)?

Answer

anon58192932 picture anon58192932 · Sep 24, 2018

I would use S3 Sync from the awscli to download the files and edit them locally before syncing them back to their original location and updating the originals.

Documentation on S3 sync here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/s3/sync.html

EDIT: Example:

  1. aws s3 sync s3://mybucket .
  2. edit your files locally
  3. aws s3 sync . s3://mybucket