Copy Data using AWS Powershell from Amazon S3 Server to local drive.

Question

I am trying Get-S3Object -BucketName pilot but it has lot of sub directories.

Answer 1

You probably want to use Copy-S3Object instead, for the actual copying. Get-S3Object returns a collection of S3Object metadata. Use Get-S3Object to isolate the objects you want to copy, and then pass the important information from them (the Key) into Copy-S3Object.

You can use the KeyPrefix Parameter to filter the results down to a specific sub-directory. For example:

$srcBucketName = "myBucket"
$objects = get-s3object -bucketname $srcBucketName -KeyPrefix "mySubdirectory"

If you need to copy data from all of your directories, you can break this overall operation into smaller chunks by calling get-s3object individually, once for each directory in your bucket.

If the individual directories are still yet too large, you can further chunk your operation by using the MaxKeys parameter.

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Once you're ready to copy, you can do something like this:

$objects | 
% { copy-s3object -BucketName $srcBucketName -Key $_.Key -LocalFile "somePath" }

...where you've defined your local path. You can even match the subdirectories and keys to your local path by resolving the key in a string: "C:/someDir/$($_.Key)"

• Get-S3Object Documentation: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/powershell/latest/reference/items/Get-S3Object.html
• Copy-S3Object Documentation: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/powershell/latest/reference/items/Copy-S3Object.html